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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.

By default, you can create a maximum of 200 firewalls in a region.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.

2. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
3. Click in the upper left corner and choose Network > Virtual Private Cloud.

   The Virtual Private Cloud page is displayed.

4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Access Control > Firewalls.
5. In the right pane displayed, click Create Firewall.
6. On the Create Firewall page, configure parameters as prompted.
   Figure 1 Create Firewall
   

   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

7. Click OK.

Parent topic: Managing Firewalls