View Service Groups Available for Firewall Rules by Using Your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal

By using the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal, you can view the list of service groups that are available for use in firewall rules. In this context, a service is a protocol-port combination, and a service group is a group of services or other service groups.

You can view the available service groups by using the Grouping Objects page. To open this page, you must navigate either to the distributed firewall settings of the organization VDC, or to the services settings of an edge gateway that belongs to the organization VDC.

Procedure

1. Open the Grouping Objects page.

   Option	Action
   From the distributed firewall settings of the organization VDC	From the top navigation bar, under Resources, select Cloud Resources. In the left panel, click Organization VDCs. Select the radio button next to the name of the target organization virtual data center, and click Manage firewall. Click the Grouping Objects tab.
   From the services settings of an edge gateway on the organization VDC	From the top navigation bar, under Resources, select Cloud Resources. In the left panel, click Edge Gateways. Select the radio button next to the name of an edge gateway that belongs to the target organization virtual data center, and click Services. Click the Grouping Objects tab.

2. Click the Service Groups tab.

Results

The available service groups are displayed on the screen. The Description column displays the services that are grouped in each service group.