How to block custom bots on a Plesk server?

Question

How to block custom bots on Plesk server?

Answer

It is possible to add the required bots into Fail2ban "apache-badbot" jail:

1. Log in the server via SSH
2. Create backup of apache-badbots.conf file:

   # cp -p /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/apache-badbots.conf /root/apache-badbots.conf_back

3. Edit /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/apache-badbots.conf file and add the required bot.
   In the example below ClaudeBot is added: