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Managing perimeter firewalls

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management supports the management of perimeter, or routed, firewalls from the Manager Firewall Rules dialog box. Perimeter firewalls are layer 3 firewalls, and protect traffic in and out of a network. Perimeter firewalls have one or more external (unprotected) and internal (protected) interfaces, and secure what is referred to as north/south traffic. Perimeter firewalls support many interfaces, each on a different subnet.

Note

When you are adding, editing, or deleting firewall rules, the network container is locked.

The topic describes how cloud administrators can manage perimeter firewalls for a network container with a firewall.

Before you begin

The network container must have at least one firewall.

To manage a perimeter firewall from a network container

Note

Perimeter firewalls cannot be enabled or disabled (toggled) when creating or editing a network container.

You can access the Manage Firewalls dialog from the Resource Manager > Network > Network Containers workspace or from the accompanying Details pane for the selected container.

  1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, perform the following steps:
    1. Click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
    2. Under Quick Links on the left, click Network Containers under the Network section to display the network containers.
    3. Select a network container that has a firewall that you want to manage.
    4. Click the Manage Firewall Rules icon FWicon.gif.
  2. From the Details pane, perform the following steps:
    1. Select the network container with the firewall entry or entries.
    2. Expand the Details pane.
    3. Under the Firewalls label, select the firewall from the Firewalls table.
    4. Click the Manage Firewall Rules icon FWicon.gif.
      The Manage Firewall rules dialog is displayed.
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  3. Review the following field descriptions:

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Where to go from here

You can now create a new rule or edit an existing rule.

Related topics

Overview-of-managing-firewalls-for-network-containers
Managing-dynamic-components-for-network-containers
Managing-distributed-firewalls
Creating-and-editing-firewall-rules
 Creating-network-containers

 

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