How to Export Firewall Rules from your SDDC

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

This article lists out steps to export firewall rules from your VMC SDDC.

Resolution

Pre-Requisites:

• ORG ID = Can be found from the support tab of the SDDC
• SDDC ID = Can be found from the support tab of the SDDC
• O Auth Token or API token = Login into Cloud Portal (https://console.cloud.vmware.com) . Navigate to My Account > API Tokens > Generate Token > Give a name, select All Roles > Generate. (Note down the API Token somewhere safe)
• Make sure you have python installed on your desktop. Python version 3.0 and above is needed.
• Packages that needs to be installed/present on desktop - requests, json, argparse (Command to install these packages. e.g. pip install requests)

Command Syntax:

python ExportVMCFWRules.py orgid sddcid refreshtoken > outFile.json

 

Output:

outFile.json = This file will have all Firewall rules which includes Management Gateway Rules, Compute Gateway Rules and Distributed Firewall rules.

Script:
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