Manage classic firewalls

Abiquo 4.4 enables you to onboard and edit Classic firewalls from vCloud. A classic firewall is the firewall service in the orgVdc Edge.

Users work with classic firewalls at the public cloud region level. In the platform there is no association between classic firewalls and virtual datacenters or classic firewalls and VMs. This means that when you onboard virtual resources, you must onboard classic firewalls in addition to virtual datacenters.

Onboard classic firewalls

To onboard classic firewalls:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → All → Select a region
2. At the top of the Classic firewalls list, click the double-arrow button
3. For each classic firewall that you want to onboard, select the classic firewall and click the double-arrow button next to the firewall name. The platform will retrieve the classic firewall and its rules.

To synchronize a firewall that you onboarded earlier, click the synchronize double-arrow button beside the firewall name.

View firewall provider ID

To view the provider ID of a classic firewall, edit the firewall.

Edit a classic firewall

To edit a classic firewall, select the firewall and click the pencil edit button.

Change the name and description as required, then click Save.

Change firewall rule sequence

When traffic arrives at the firewall, the Edge will attempt to match the rules from rule 0 to the end of the list of rules.

The Edge will use the last rule (with the highest sequence number) as the default rule.

The platform will maintain the rules in order with no gaps.

To change the order of rules, click the pencil edit button beside a sequence number, then enter a new sequence number and click "ok". The platform will move the other rules to fit around the changed rule.

For example, to move a rule from position 1 to position 2, enter 2 and click "ok".

The platform will now move the rule that was in position 2 to position 1. 

Create and edit firewall rules

You can edit existing rules and create new rules for classic firewalls. 

To create a firewall rule, click the Add + button and complete the following dialog.