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Azion Scheduled Blocking is a serverless integration available at Azion Marketplace.

This integration allows you to control the access to your application based on a time schedule, according to your needs.

To use the Scheduled Blocking integration provided by Azion Marketplace, you have to:

1. Access Azion Console > Marketplace.
2. On the Marketplace homepage, select Scheduled Blocking card.
3. Once the integration’s page opens, click the Get It Now button, at the bottom-right corner of the page.

You’ll see a message indicating that your integration was successfully installed.

To instantiate the Scheduled Blocking integration, follow the steps:

1. In the Products menu, select Edge Firewall in the SECURE section.
2. Click the Add Rule Set button.
3. Give an easy-to-remember name to your edge firewall.
4. Select the domains you want to protect with the function.
5. Turn the Edge Functions switch on.
6. Click the Save button.

Done. Now you’ve instantiated the edge firewall for your function.

To instantiate the Scheduled Blocking integration, while still on the Edge Firewall page, select the Functions tab and follow these steps:

1. Click the Add Function button.
2. Give an easy to remember name to your instance.
3. On the dropdown menu, select the Scheduled Blocking function.

This action will load the function, showing a form with the source code of the function and, just above it, two tabs: Code and Args.

By clicking the Code tab, you’ll be able to navigate through the source code but not change it. In the same box, there’s the Args tab, which is where you’ll pass the parameters you want to use with your integration.

The Args tab will load a JSON file that looks like this:

{
  "schedule": [
    {
      "action": "deny",
      "execute_action_when": "in_interval",
      "interval": {
        "starts_at_utc": "00:00",
        "finishes_at_utc": "00:59"
      },
      "week_days": {
        "Sun": true,
        "Mon": true,
        "Tue": true,
        "Wed": true,
        "Thu": true,
        "Fri": false,
        "Sat": true
      }
    },
    {
      "action": "drop",
      "execute_action_when": "not_in_interval",
      "interval": {
        "starts_at_utc": "01:00",
        "finishes_at_utc": "20:00"
      },
      "week_days": {
        "Mon": true,
        "Tue": true
      }
    },
    {
      "action": "static_response",
      "execute_action_when": "in_interval",
      "static_response_data": {
        "status": 503,
        "message": "You can write a custom message here",
        "html": "<!-- Some HTML can go here -->"
      },
      "interval": {
        "starts_at_utc": "20:00",
        "finishes_at_utc": "23:59"
      },
      "week_days": {
        "Sun": true,
        "Sat": true
      }
    }
  ]
}

The arguments that you can pass on this JSON file are the following:

Click the Save button and you’re done. Your Edge Firewall integration is instantiated.

Finally, you must set up the Rules Engine to configure the behavior and the criteria to run the function.

Still in the Edge Firewall page, select the Rules Engine tab and follow these steps:

1. Click the New Rule button.
2. Give a name to the rule.
3. Select a criteria to run and catch the domain you want to run the integration on.
4. Below, select the Run Function behavior to the criteria.

• Select the adequate Scheduled Blocking function according to the name you gave it in the instantiate step.

5. Click the Save button.

Done. Now the Scheduled Blocking integration is running for every request made to the domain you indicated.

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