Editing a Policy
Edit the information for a network firewall policy in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
You can't edit a policy that is associated with one or more firewalls. To edit a policy that's associated with a firewall, you can choose one of the following options:
- Associate the firewall with a different policy, edit the policy, and then associate the policy with the firewall again.
- Clone the policy, and edit the policy during the cloning process. Then, associate the firewall with the edited clone.
- 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.
- Select the compartment that contains the policy that you want to edit.
- Click the name of the policy.
- (Optional)
Rename the policy:
- Click Rename.
- Enter a new name for the policy.
- Click Save changes.
- (Optional)
Edit a policy component:
- Under Policy Resources, click a component type to view a list of available component resources.
- For the component resource that you want to edit, click the the , and select Edit. For information about components and the changes you can make to them, see Creating Policy Components.
- Click 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.