Manual Chapter : Monitor Behavioral DoS traffic

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • 7.1.0
Manual Chapter

Monitor Behavioral DoS traffic

You must have Behavioral and Stress-based DoS (BaDoS) detection enabled on your DoS profile. In addition, the DoS profile must be deployed to the protected virtual server.
Evaluate BaDoS traffic statistics to your virtual server to ensure that yor application servers are able to manage traffic properly when under DoS attack. Attacks may be indicated by virtual server or pool member alerts.
  1. Go to
    Monitoring
    DASHBOARDS
    DDoS
    Protection Summary
    .
  2. Click the PROTECTED OBJECTS area in the summary bar at the top of the screen.
    The screen displays details of all protected objects, including the object's health status, number of attacks detected, protection mode, and host BIG-IP device.
  3. Select the name of the virtual server protected by a BaDoS profile.
    The screen display's the virtual server's dashboard. Ensure the tab at the center of the screen is set to
    ANALYTICS
    .
  4. Use the menu to the bottom left of the screen to navigate among the charts.
    The Server Stress chart is the primary indicator of an ongoing attack, and its mitigation status.