Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Change a Firewall Policy

Change the information for a firewall policy in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

You can't change a firewall policy that is associated with one or more firewalls. To change a policy that's associated with a firewall, do one of the following:
  • Associate the firewall with a different policy, change the original policy, and then associate the original policy with the firewall again.
  • Clone a Firewall Policy, and change the policy during the cloning process. Then, Change a Firewall to associate it with the new policy.
  • Important

    When you make the following changes, the update causes a connection reset in any associated firewall:
    • Updating mapped secret information in a policy associated with a firewall.
    • Changing the firewall policy to one that uses different mapped secret information than the current policy.

    Editing other types of information in the associated policy does not result in a connection reset.

    1. On the navigation menu, click Identity & Security. Under Firewalls, click Network Firewall Policies.
    2. Select the compartment that contains the policy that you want to edit.
    3. Click the policy.
    4. (Optional) Rename the policy:
      1. Click Rename.
      2. Enter a new name for the policy.
      3. Click Save changes.
    5. (Optional) Change a policy component:
      1. Under Policy Resources, click a component type to view a list of available component resources.
      2. For the component resource that you want to edit, click the the Actions menu (Actions Menu), and select Edit. For information about components and the changes you can make to them, see Creating Policy Components.
      3. Click Save changes.
  • Use the network-firewall network-firewall-policy update command and required parameters to edit a firewall.
    oci network-firewall network-firewall-policy update 
--network-firewall-policy-id network_firewall_policy_id [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

  • Run the UpdateNetworkFirewallPolicy operation to update a firewall.