Creating a Firewall

Scenarios

You can create a custom firewall. By default, a newly created firewall is disabled and has no inbound or outbound rules, or any subnets associated. Each user can create up to 200 firewalls by default.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.

  1. Click image1 in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.

  2. On the console homepage, under , click Virtual Private Cloud.

  3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Access Control > Firewalls.

  4. In the right pane displayed, click Create Firewall.

  5. On the Create Firewall page, configure parameters as prompted.

    Table 1 Parameter descriptions

    Parameter

    Description

    Example Value

    Name

    The firewall name. This parameter is mandatory.

    The name contains a maximum of 64 characters, which may consist of letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-). The name cannot contain spaces.

    fw-92d3

    Description

    Supplementary information about the firewall. This parameter is optional.

    The description can contain a maximum of 255 characters and cannot contain angle brackets (< or >).

    N/A

  6. Click OK.