Note: The IP/FQDN and port of the Progress Kemp licensing server must be open on your firewall. The FQDN and IP address is licensing.kemp.ax 52.166.52.190, and the port is 443. The old FQDNs for the Progress Kemp licensing server are alsi.kemptechnologies.com and alsi2.kemptechnologies.com, and the IP address for the old FQDNs is 52.136.251.129. These also may need to be open depending on your LoadMaster version.
Note: Progress Kemp-provided daily updates are only available when you have an Enterprise Plus subscription. For further details on the subscription tiers, go to LoadMaster Support Subscriptions.

Enable Automated Daily Updates

Enables the automatic download of daily updates

Note: The automatic and manual download options are grayed out if WAF support has expired. If this is the case, contact Progress Kemp to renew your subscription.

Enable Automated Installs

Enables automatic installation of the daily updates

By default, the Enable Automated Installs and Manually Install Updatesoptions are grayed out. The rules must be downloaded for the first time before these options become available.

When to install

Select the time (hour of the day) to install the daily updates automatically.

Note: The daily updates must be assigned to a Virtual Service to take effect.

Download Now

Downloads the daily updates immediately.

A warning message appears if the rules have not been updated in the last seven days or if they have not been downloaded at all.

Show Changes

Appears after the daily updates are downloaded. Click this button to retrieve a log of changes that have been made to the Progress Kemp WAF rule set.

Install Now

Installs the daily updates manually.

Note: The daily updates must be assigned to a Virtual Service in order to take effect.

View IP Access List Data File

Click View to see the IP access list data file. This file contains a list of blocked IP addresses for known bad actors. If the Enable IP Reputation Blocking check box is enabled for a Virtual Service (Virtual Services > View/Modify Services > Modify > WAF), client addresses are checked against the IP access list file and are blocked if a match is found.