Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Reference for Web Application Firewall

This guide lists the predefined objects in OCI Resource Analytics for the Web Application Firewall service. You can find information about views, entity relationships, subject areas, and sample queries.

Views

This section provides information about views within OCI Resource Analytics Web Application Firewall and their columns, data types, keys, and the referred view and column names. The following views are available:

Web Application Firewall Views
Name Description
WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_NETWORK_ADDRESS_LIST_DIM_V This view stores information about IP addresses that can be reused between different Web Application Firewall policies.
WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_DIM_V This view stores information about a resource connecting a Web Application Firewall policy to a backend of particular type, applying that policy's coverage to the backend.
WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_POLICY_DIM_V This view stores information about Web Application Firewall policies.
WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_FACT_V Fact table for Web Application Firewall resources.

The suffixes in the view names specify the view type:

  • FACT_V: Fact
  • DIM_V: Dimension

Relationship Diagram

This section provides diagrams that define the logical relationship of a fact table with different dimension tables.

The contents of each view and their relationships are listed in the following file: Web Application Firewall views.

WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_FACT_V


Relationship diagram showing WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_FACT_V and its related dimension tables.

Relationships exist among dimensions. Dimensions can be joined directly to each other.

WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_NETWORK_ADDRESS_LIST_DIM_V


Relationship diagram showing WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_NETWORK_ADDRESS_LIST_DIM_V and its related dimension table, COMPARTMENT_DIM_V.

Sample Queries

Sample queries for Web Application Firewall.

List active Web Application Firewalls and their associated policies.

SELECT
    WEB_APP_FIREWALL_ID,
    WEB_APP_FIREWALL_POLICY_ID
FROM OCIRA.WEB_APPLICATION_FIREWALL_FACT_V 
WHERE LIFECYCLE_STATE = 'ACTIVE';

Data Lineage

The Customer Experience Semantic Model Lineage spreadsheet and Metric Calculation Logic spreadsheet for Web Application Firewall provides an end-to-end data lineage summary report for physical and logical relationships in your data.

For more information, see Data Lineage.

Subject Areas

This section provides information on the subject areas with data you maintain in Web Application Firewall. These subject areas, with their corresponding data, are available for you to use when creating and editing analyses and reports. The information for each subject area includes:

  • Description of the subject area.

  • Business questions that can be answered by data in the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each business question.

  • Job-specific groups and duty roles that can be used to secure access to the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each job role and duty role.

  • Primary navigation to the work area that's represented by the subject area.

  • Time reporting considerations in using the subject area, such as whether the subject area reports historical data or only the current data. Historical reporting refers to reporting on historical transactional data in a subject area. With a few exceptions, all dimensional data are current as of the primary transaction dates or system date.

  • The lowest grain of transactional data in a subject area. The lowest transactional data grain decides how data are joined in a report.

  • Special considerations, tips, and things to look out for in using the subject area to create analyses and reports.

The subject area is: