IBM Cloud Hardware Firewall

ibm Firewallibm-firewall

Appliance upstream of classic infrastructure servers that filters traffic with stateful packet inspection before it reaches them.

Provider: ibm
Kind: Firewall
Category: Security
Official docs: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/hardware-firewall-shared?topic=hardware-firewall-shared-about-hardware-firewall-shared

Properties · 2 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
defaultAction	enum	allow \| deny	no	—	inherited
intrusionPrevention	boolean	—	no	—	inherited
logging	boolean	—	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
maxRules · component property	integer	—	no	79	inherited
ruleCount	integer	—	no	—	inherited
stateful	boolean	—	no	—	▸ true
throughputMbps · component property	integer	—	no	—	inherited

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "firewall", component: "ibm-firewall" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# IBM Cloud Hardware Firewall: an appliance placed upstream of classic infrastructure servers that
3# "blocks unwanted traffic from a server before the traffic ever reaches the server", using
4# stateful packet inspection, with up to 79 rules and interface speeds of 100, 200, 1000 and
5# 2000 Mbps ("About Hardware Firewall"). End of marketing 17 December 2025, end of support
6# 31 December 2026. No default rule posture is documented, so defaultAction is left unset.
7schemaVersion: "1"
8type: "component"
9id: "ibm-firewall"
10kind: "firewall"
11provider: "ibm"
12docs: "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/hardware-firewall-shared?topic=hardware-firewall-shared-about-hardware-firewall-shared"
13defaults:
14  managed: true
15  stateful: true
16properties:
17  throughputMbps:
18    type: "integer"
19  maxRules:
20    type: "integer"
21    default: 79

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/ibm-firewall.md