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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2017
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kaushal Bansal, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Uday Masurekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Serge Maskalik, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Shadab Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aravind Srinivasan, Coimbatore, IN;
Minjal Agarwal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a central firewall management system that can be used to manage different firewall devices from a single management interface. This management interface provides a uniform interface for defining different firewall rule sets and deploying these rules sets on different firewall devices (e.g., port-linked firewall engines, firewall service VMs, network-perimeter firewall devices, etc.). Also, this interface allows the location and/or behavior of the firewall rule sets to be dynamically modified. The management interface in some embodiments also provides controls for filtering and debugging firewall rules.