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Creating a Firewall Group

Function

This API is used to create a firewall group.

URI

POST /v2.0/fwaas/firewall_groups

Request Message

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 of the distributed router.
admin_state_up	No	Boolean	Specifies the administrative status of the firewall. The value can be true or false.

Response Message

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 policy 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.
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:

Example request

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

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

Example response

{
    "firewall_group": {
        "status": "PENDING_CREATE", 
        "public": false, 
        "egress_firewall_policy_id": null, 
        "name": "", 
        "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.

Parent topic: Firewall