Change a Firewall Policy

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

You can't change a firewall policy that's associated with a firewall. 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, select Identity & Security. Go to Firewalls, select Network Firewall Policies.
2. Select the compartment that contains the policy that you want to edit.
3. Select the policy.
4. (Optional) Rename the policy:
  
  Select Rename.
  
  Enter a new name for the policy.
  
  Select Save changes.
5. (Optional) Change a policy component:
  
  Under Policy Resources, select a component type to view a list of available component resources.
  
  For the component resource that you want to edit, select the the Actions menu (), and select Edit.
  
  Select 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.