1. Operations
  2. appliance
  3. techpreview
  4. networking
  5. firewall
  6. addr
  7. inbound

appliance techpreview networking firewall addr inbound: add

Add a firewall rule to allow or deny traffic from incoming IP address.

Request:

HTTP request

POST https://{server}/rest/appliance/techpreview/networking/firewall/addr/inbound

Request Body Structure:

{
    "pos": 1,
    "rule": {
        "address": "string",
        "interface_name": "string",
        "policy": "deny",
        "prefix": 1
    }
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Add-Input xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/techpreview/networking/firewall/addr/inbound" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <rule>
    <address>string</address>
    <prefix>1</prefix>
    <policy>deny</policy>
    <interface_name>string</interface_name>
  </rule>
  <pos>1</pos>
</ns0:Add-Input>

Request Body Parameters:

Name Type Description
bold = required
pos long Position before which to insert the rule (zero-based). If you try to insert the rule in a position whose number is greater than the number of rules, the firewall rule is inserted at the end of the list.
rule firewall_address_rule Firewall IP-based rule.
rule.address string IPv4 or IPv6 address.
rule.prefix long CIDR prefix used to mask address. For example, an IPv4 prefix of 24 ignores the low-order 8 bits of address.
rule.policy string The allow or deny policy of this rule.

Defines firewall rule policies Value is one of:
deny: Deny packet with correpsonding address.
allow: Allow packet with corresponding address.
rule.interface_name string The interface to which this rule applies. An empty string or "*" indicates that the rule applies to all interfaces.

Response:

HTTP Status Code: 200

None

Errors:

HTTP Status Code Type Description
500 error Generic error