update-web-acl

Description

Inserts or deletes ActivatedRule objects in a WebACL . Each Rule identifies web requests that you want to allow, block, or count. When you update a WebACL , you specify the following values:

• A default action for the WebACL , either ALLOW or BLOCK . AWS WAF performs the default action if a request doesn’t match the criteria in any of the Rules in a WebACL .
• The Rules that you want to add or delete. If you want to replace one Rule with another, you delete the existing Rule and add the new one.
• For each Rule , whether you want AWS WAF to allow requests, block requests, or count requests that match the conditions in the Rule .
• The order in which you want AWS WAF to evaluate the Rules in a WebACL . If you add more than one Rule to a WebACL , AWS WAF evaluates each request against the Rules in order based on the value of Priority . (The Rule that has the lowest value for Priority is evaluated first.) When a web request matches all the predicates (such as ByteMatchSets and IPSets ) in a Rule , AWS WAF immediately takes the corresponding action, allow or block, and doesn’t evaluate the request against the remaining Rules in the WebACL , if any.

To create and configure a WebACL , perform the following steps:

• Create and update the predicates that you want to include in Rules . For more information, see CreateByteMatchSet , UpdateByteMatchSet , CreateIPSet , UpdateIPSet , CreateSqlInjectionMatchSet , and UpdateSqlInjectionMatchSet .
• Create and update the Rules that you want to include in the WebACL . For more information, see CreateRule and UpdateRule .
• Create a WebACL . See CreateWebACL .
• Use GetChangeToken to get the change token that you provide in the ChangeToken parameter of an UpdateWebACL request.
• Submit an UpdateWebACL request to specify the Rules that you want to include in the WebACL , to specify the default action, and to associate the WebACL with a CloudFront distribution. The ActivatedRule can be a rule group. If you specify a rule group as your ActivatedRule , you can exclude specific rules from that rule group. If you already have a rule group associated with a web ACL and want to submit an UpdateWebACL request to exclude certain rules from that rule group, you must first remove the rule group from the web ACL, the re-insert it again, specifying the excluded rules. For details, see ActivatedRule$ExcludedRules .

Be aware that if you try to add a RATE_BASED rule to a web ACL without setting the rule type when first creating the rule, the UpdateWebACL request will fail because the request tries to add a REGULAR rule (the default rule type) with the specified ID, which does not exist.

For more information about how to use the AWS WAF API to allow or block HTTP requests, see the AWS WAF Developer Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  update-web-acl
--web-acl-id <value>
--change-token <value>
[--updates <value>]
[--default-action <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]

Options

--web-acl-id (string)

--change-token (string)

--updates (list)

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Action": "INSERT"|"DELETE",
    "ActivatedRule": {
      "Priority": integer,
      "RuleId": "string",
      "Action": {
        "Type": "BLOCK"|"ALLOW"|"COUNT"
      },
      "OverrideAction": {
        "Type": "NONE"|"COUNT"
      },
      "Type": "REGULAR"|"RATE_BASED"|"GROUP",
      "ExcludedRules": [
        {
          "RuleId": "string"
        }
        ...
      ]
    }
  }
  ...
]

--default-action (structure)

Shorthand Syntax:

Type=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "Type": "BLOCK"|"ALLOW"|"COUNT"
}

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

• json
• text
• table
• yaml
• yaml-stream

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

• on
• off
• auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

• base64
• raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

Examples

To update a web ACL

The following update-web-acl command deletes an ActivatedRule object in a WebACL.

Output:

{
    "ChangeToken": "12cs345-67cd-890b-1cd2-c3a4567d89f1"
}

For more information, see Working with Web ACLs in the AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Shield Advanced Developer Guide.

Output

ChangeToken -> (string)