WAwatchguard
Exceptions (Intrusion Prevention)

Creates a new IPS signature exception.

post/v1/configuration/{accountid}/exceptions/ips

Request

Request body

action'allow' | 'block' required

Specifies the action to take for the specified signature, either allow or block.

alarmboolean

Specifies whether the FireCloud sends an alarm for the IPS exception.

descriptionstring

Specifies the description of the IPS signature exception. Maximum: 127 characters.

signature_idstring required

Specifies the IPS signature ID. Must contain only numbers. Maximum: 31 characters.

Example request

{
  "alarm": true,
  "description": "Block signature 1055124"
}

Response

The created IPS signature exception object.

idstring required

Unique ID that identifies this object.

objectstring required

Type of object.

versioninteger required

Version number of the object.

accountstring required

Your WatchGuard Cloud account ID.

createdinteger required

Time that the object was created, specified in Unix epoch time format.

device'firewan' required

Device this object applies to.

authorstring required

Author of the object. This is always empty for objects added or updated with the FireCloud Management API.

action'allow' | 'block' required

Specifies the action to take for the specified signature, either allow or block.

alarmboolean

Specifies whether the FireCloud sends an alarm for the IPS exception.

descriptionstring

Specifies the description of the IPS signature exception. Maximum: 127 characters.

signature_idstring required

Specifies the IPS signature ID. Must contain only numbers. Maximum: 31 characters.

Example response

{
  "id": "ipse_12345_eY5Jwxv1nE3Xlk3zx",
  "object": "ips_exception",
  "device": "firewan",
  "version": 1,
  "account": "WGC-1-123abc456",
  "created": 1579907960,
  "author": "jsmith",
  "description": "Block signature 1055124",
  "signature_id": 1054265,
  "action": "block"
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.