Add or Edit a Firewall Rule from the Flow Monitoring Report

By drilling down into the traffic data, you can evaluate the use of your resources and send session information to Distributed Firewall to create a new allow or block rule at any level.

Procedure

1. In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to Networking & Security > Tools > Flow Monitoring.
2. Click the Details by Service tab.
3. Click a service to view the traffic flow for it.
   Depending on the selected tab, rules that allowed or denied traffic for this service are displayed.
4. Click a rule ID to view rule details.
5. Do one of the following:
   • To edit a rule:
     1. Click Edit Rule in the Actions column.
     2. Change the name, action, or comments for the rule.
     3. Click OK.
   • To add a rule:
     1. Click Add Rule in the Actions column.
     2. Complete the form to add a rule. For information on completing the firewall rule form, see Add a Firewall Rule.
     3. Click OK.

     The rule is added at the top of the firewall rule section.