F5 BIG-IP

Overview

F5's BIG-IP is a family of products covering software and hardware designed around application availability, access control, and security solutions.

Event Categories

The following table lists the data source offered by this integration.

Data Source	Description
Network device logs	IPS logs and firewall logs are examined in detail
Network protocol analysis	Packet filters logs provide information about the network activity
Web logs	BIG-IP LTM logs provide information about the connected client and the requested resource
DNS records	BIG-IP DNS logs provide information about DNS queries

Configure

We expect logs formated in priority as CEF or under the reporting format (key/value pairs).

In this setup guide you will forward securely your BIG-IP logs to our servers. We first explain how to configure your syslog concentrator, then we show how to configure a Log Publisher to format your logs as CEF and send them to your syslog concentrator.

Most BIG-IP modules can use Log Publishers, some can directly log messages as CEF to a syslog server.

Set up the concentrator

Please consult the Syslog Forwarding documentation to set up the concentrator that will forward your logs to SEKOIA.IO.

Configure a Log Publisher

Before creating a log publisher, you first need a management port log destination:

System -> Logs -> Configuration -> Log Destinations -> Create...

Give it a name, choose type Management Port, fill the address and port of your syslog concentrator and select protocol UDP (alternatively you can define a pool of syslog servers and use it as a remote high speed log destination).

Then you need another log destination to format your logs in CEF:

System -> Logs -> Configuration -> Log Destinations -> Create...

Give it a name, choose type ArcSight, and forward to the log destination you just created.

You can now create a log publisher:

System -> Logs -> Configuration -> Log Publishers -> Create...

Give it a name, and select the ArcSight log destination you just created.

You can now use this log publisher to define logging profiles in your BIG-IP modules. As an example in:

Access -> Overview -> Event Logs -> Settings -> Create -> Access System Logs -> Publisher

or

Security -> Event Logs -> Logging Profiles -> Create... -> Publisher

Direct Configuration

Some modules allow direct configuration to the syslog concentrator. As an example:

Security -> Event Logs -> Logging Profiles -> Create...

Then choose Application Security, select Remote Storage as a storage destination, Common Event Format (ArcSight) as a logging format, and fill in your syslog concentrator info.

The resulting logging profile can be applied to a given virtual server in:

Local Traffic -> Virtual Servers -> Virtual Server List

Then choose a virtual server, go to the Security -> Policies tab and apply the log profile.