Grouping predefined data types

How to set up your FortiWeb : Auto-learning : Recognizing data types : Grouping predefined data types

A data type group defines a set of predefined data types (see “Predefined data types”) that can be used in an auto-learning profile.

For example, if you include the Email data type in the data type group, auto-learning profiles that use the data type group might discover that your web applications use a parameter named username whose value is an email address.

The predefined data type group, named predefine-data-type-group, cannot be edited or deleted.

To configure a predefined data type group

1. Go to Auto Learn > Predefined Pattern > Data Type Group.

To access this part of the web UI, your administrator’s account access profile must have Read and Write permission to items in the Server Policy Configuration category. For details, see “Permissions”.

2. Click Create New.

A dialog appears.

3. In Name, type a unique name that can be referenced by other parts of the configuration. Do not use spaces or special characters. The maximum length is 35 characters.

4. In Type, mark the check box of each predefined data type that you want to include in the set, such as Email or Canadian Social Insurance Number.


	If you know that your network’s HTTP sessions do not include a specific data type, omit it from the data type group to improve performance. The FortiWeb appliance will not expend resources scanning traffic for that data type.

To examine the regular expressions for each data type, see “Predefined data types”.

5. Click OK.

6. To use a data type group, select it when configuring either an auto-learning profile (see “Configuring an auto-learning profile”) or input rule (see “Validating parameters (“input rules”)”).