Creating a Firewall Group

Function

This API is used to create a firewall group.

URI

POST /v2.0/fwaas/firewall_groups

Request Parameters

Table 1 Request parameter

Parameter

Type

Mandatory

Description

firewall_group

firewall_group object

Yes

Specifies the firewall group. For details, see Table 2.

Table 2 Firewall Group objects

Attribute

Mandatory

Type

Description

name

No

String

Specifies the name of the firewall group.

The value can contain a maximum of 255 characters.

description

No

String

Provides supplementary information about the firewall group.

The value can contain a maximum of 255 characters.

ingress_firewall_policy_id

No

String

Specifies the firewall policy for inbound traffic.

egress_firewall_policy_id

No

String

Specifies the firewall policy for outbound traffic.

ports

No

Array of strings

Specifies the list of ports bound with the firewall group.

The value must be the port ID.

Note

The port is the one whose device_owner is network:router_interface_distributed.

  • Call the VPC API for querying the port ID. The filtering criteria are the specified network_id and device_owner. The network_id is the network ID of the subnet associated with the firewall.

    Example:

    GET https://{Endpoint}/v1/{project_id}/ports?network_id={network_id}&device_owner=network%3Arouter_interface_distributed
    

admin_state_up

No

Boolean

Specifies the administrative status of the firewall.

The value can be true or false.

Example Request

Create an ACL group, associate it with the inbound ACL policy afc52ce9-5305-4ec9-9feb-44feb8330341, and set the port ID to c133f2bf-6937-4416-bb17-012e1be5cd2d.

POST https://{Endpoint}/v2.0/fwaas/firewall_groups

{
    "firewall_group": {
        "name": "test",
        "ingress_firewall_policy_id": "afc52ce9-5305-4ec9-9feb-44feb8330341",
        "ports": [
            "c133f2bf-6937-4416-bb17-012e1be5cd2d"
        ]
    }
}

Response Parameters

Table 3 Response parameter

Parameter

Type

Description

firewall_group

firewall_group object

Specifies the firewall group. For details, see Table 4.

Table 4 Firewall Group objects

Attribute

Type

Description

id

String

Specifies the UUID of the firewall group.

name

String

Specifies the name of the firewall group.

description

String

Provides supplementary information about the firewall group.

tenant_id

String

Specifies the project ID.

ingress_firewall_policy_id

String

Specifies the firewall policy for inbound traffic.

egress_firewall_policy_id

String

Specifies the firewall policy for outbound traffic.

ports

Array of strings

Specifies the list of ports bound with the firewall group.

public

Boolean

Specifies whether the firewall group can be shared by different tenants.

status

String

Specifies the status of the firewall policy.

admin_state_up

Boolean

Specifies the administrative status of the firewall.

project_id

String

Specifies the project ID. For details about how to obtain a project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

created_at

String

Specifies the time (UTC) when the resource is created.

Format: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss

updated_at

String

Specifies the time (UTC) when the resource is updated.

Format: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss

Example Response

{
    "firewall_group": {
        "status": "PENDING_CREATE",
        "public": false,
        "egress_firewall_policy_id": null,
        "name": "test",
        "admin_state_up": true,
        "ports": [
            "c133f2bf-6937-4416-bb17-012e1be5cd2d"
        ],
        "tenant_id": "23c8a121505047b6869edf39f3062712",
        "id": "0415f554-26ed-44e7-a881-bdf4e6216e38",
        "ingress_firewall_policy_id": "afc52ce9-5305-4ec9-9feb-44feb8330341",
        "description": "",
        "project_id": "23c8a121505047b6869edf39f3062712",
        "created_at": "2018-09-12T08:24:14",
        "updated_at": "2018-09-12T08:24:14"
    }
}

Status Code

See Status Codes.

Error Code

See Error Codes.