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Manual : Managing DDoS Attacks using BIG-IQ

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

8.4.0, 8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0

Original Publication Date: 02/24/2021
Updated Date: 03/26/2025

Managing DoS Profiles in Shared Security

About DoS profiles

Create DoS profiles

Edit DoS profiles

Managing DoS Protection on managed devices

About device DoS configurations

Edit device DoS configurations

Copy device DoS configurations

Managing Allowed Network Addresses under DoS Protection

Create network allowlist

Creating Protected Objects in Shared Security

DoS Protected objects in Shared Security

Create a Netflow protected server

Create a protected virtual server

Create a protected zone

Deploy protected objects in Shared Security

Logging DoS Protection events

Configure DoS Protection event logging on BIG-IQ

Configuring DoS Protection event logging over multiple DCDs

Configure a DCD pool as a Log Destination

Configure logging for DoS events

Edit a Log Publisher Log Destination

Monitoring ongoing DDoS attacks

Identifying protected objects under DDoS attack

Identify the status of applications and virtual servers under DDoS attack

Edit the DoS profile of objects under attack

Edit a virtual server's protection in shared security

Edit a Netflow object's protection in shared security

Edit an application's shared security protection

Exporting DoS Attacks via SNMP

Exporting reported DoS attacks

Create a DoS alert rule

Modify DoS alert rules

Detecting DDoS Attack Impact

Detecting the impact of DDoS attacks

Summary of DDoS attacks

Filter ongoing DDoS attacks

Protection modes against DDoS attacks

DDoS attack severity

Rules for correlated DoS attacks

DDoS attack events

Mitigate Device Issues During DDoS Attacks

Detecting health issues in BIG-IP devices reporting DDoS attacks

Identify devices with low health managing DDoS attacks

Monitoring Behavioral DoS protection

About Behavioral DoS protection

Behavioral and stress-based detection settings

Evaluating Behavioral DoS protection

Monitor Behavioral DoS traffic

Virtual server status events

Pool member status events

Behavioral DoS charts

Behavioral DoS dimensions and metrics