Enabling or Disabling a VPC Border Firewall

Enabling a Firewall

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, click and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
4. (Optional) If the current account has only one firewall instance, the firewall details page is displayed. If there are multiple firewall instances, click View in the Operation column of a firewall to go to its details page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Assets > Inter-VPC Border Firewalls.
6. In the upper part of the page, click Enable Protection next to Firewall Status.
7. Click OK.

Disabling a Firewall

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, click and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
4. (Optional) If the current account has only one firewall instance, the firewall details page is displayed. If there are multiple firewall instances, click View in the Operation column of a firewall to go to its details page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Assets > Inter-VPC Border Firewalls.
6. In the upper part of the page, click Disable Protection next to Firewall Status.
7. Click OK.

Follow-up Operations

To add a protected VPC after a firewall is enabled, perform the operations in Associating a Protected VPC with the Firewall and Configuring VPC Route.