Let’s say we have vCSA 6.0 appliance in place, where some firewall rules are created.
Managing this is easy using vSphere Web Client -> Administration -> System Configuration -> Nodes -> <your vCSA node> -> Manage -> Settings -> Firewall
(List of rules would appear like following screenshot)
Click on ‘Edit’ button
Where there are buttons to Add new rule, Edit an existing rule, Re-order rules using up/down arrow, and the last button is to Delete.
Now if you want to see list of firewall rules using vCSA console, command is
api.com.vmware.appliance.version1.networking.firwall.addr.inbound.list (Following output)
and from this list if you want to delete one of the rule, remember rules are being displayed in the order they are there in GUI output, where very first rule record is index number 0, second record is index number 1 and so on
And to delete one of the record from the list, use following command.
api com.vmware.appliance.version1.networking.firewall.addr.inbound.delete –position 0
This will delete very first record from the list. and the second record which is there in the above screenshot will become the index position 0. see following screenshot
Now, if you want to delete All the rules in firewall in just one go.
api com.vmware.appliance.version1.networking.firewall.addr.inbound.delete –all true
this will make sure that all the rules in vCSA 6.0 firewall gets deleted.
(Note: in my commands, I have actually used double dash without any space in between which is visible in screenshots but the Text I have typed in blogpost is not making it very clear)
