WAF Configuration Management

Learn how to use NGINX Management Suite Instance Manager to publish NGINX App Protect WAF configurations.

Overview

You can use NGINX Management Suite Instance Manager (NIM) to publish configurations to your NGINX App Protect WAF data plane instances.

Publish WAF Configurations

1. Set up your NGINX Management Suite Instance Manager instance:

   • Install the WAF Compiler

   • Set up the Attack Signatures and Threat Campaigns

2. In Instance Manager, onboard the App Protect Instances you want to publish policies to.

3. Create the security policies.

4. Add or edit a WAF Configuration to your NGINX Instances, and publish using Instance Manager.

   Note:
   Map the App Protect directives on NGINX configuration to .tgz file extensions (not .json).