This API has a deprecated equivalent from v7.0U1.
Get Firewall Inbound
Get the ordered list of firewall rules. Within the list of traffic rules, rules are processed in order of appearance, from top to bottom. When a connection matches a firewall rule, further processing for the connection stops, and the appliance ignores any additional firewall rules you have set.
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/api/appliance/networking/firewall/inbound
Header Parameters
Header Parameters
string
vmware-api-session-id
Required
Required session ID, acquired from Create Session API under CIS product
vmware-api-session-id example
"b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389"
Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Response
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
200 OK returns
array of
NetworkingFirewallInboundRule
of type application/json
List of address-based firewall rules.
[
{
"address": "string",
"interface_name": "string",
"policy": "IGNORE",
"prefix": 0
}
]
string
address
Required
IPv4 or IPv6 address.
policy
Required
Inbound.Policy enumerated type Defines firewall rule policies.
IGNORE : Drop packet with correpsonding address.
ACCEPT : Allow packet with corresponding address.
REJECT : Drop packet with corresponding address sending destination is not reachable.
RETURN : Apply default or port-specific rules to packet with corresponding address.
Possible values are: IGNORE , ACCEPT , REJECT , RETURN
integer
prefix
Required
CIDR prefix used to mask address. For example, an IPv4 prefix of 24 ignores the low-order 8 bits of address.
string
interface_name
Optional
The interface to which this rule applies. An empty string indicates that the rule applies to all interfaces.
Errors
default
‘Default’ means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.
Code Samples
cURL Command
curl -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" https://{api_host}/api/appliance/networking/firewall/inbound
Vendor Extensions
This operation contains the following vendor extensions defined in the spec:
x-vmw-doc-deprecated-method: get
x-vmw-doc-deprecated-path: /rest/appliance/networking/firewall/inbound
x-vmw-doc-operation: get
Availability
Added in 7.0U2
