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Security groups area

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The security groups can be displayed in two different types of views:

  • Card view:

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  • List view

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The security groups can be filtered by:

  • Created at

  • Updated at

  • Region

You can also sort them by:

  • Created at

  • Name

  • Region

To perform actions on a security group, you just need to mouseover the desired security group (available in both card view and list view).

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Security group details

To see a detailed page about the security group, click on the desired security group.

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On the security group details you can:

  • edit the security group (change name and description)

  • see the region, created date, ID, project and associated instances

  • add rule to the security group

  • remove rule from the security group

  • delete the security group

Creating a new security group

To add a security group you need to click on the “Create new security group” button, on the bottom right part of the screen.

The security group can be created in both admin project or in a client project (default):

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Editing a security group

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To edit a security group you need to press the “Edit security group” button. The button is present on:

  • card view

  • list view

  • security group details

Deleting a security group

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To delete a security group you need to press the “Delete security group” button. The button is present on:

  • card view

  • list view

  • security group details

Security group rules

By default, a security group will have the following rules:

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Add new security group rule

In order to create new rules you can click on the add rule button on top right corner:

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After clicking the “Add rule” button, the following form will open:

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You can choose one of the following rule protocol (mandatory):

  • All ICMP

  • All TCP

  • All UDP

  • Any (default)

  • Custom ICMP rule

  • Custom TCP rule

  • Custom UDP rule

  • DNS

  • FTP

  • HTTP

  • HTTPS

  • IMAP

  • IMAPS

  • LDAP

  • MS SQL

  • MySQL

  • Other protocol

  • POP3S

  • RDP

  • SFTP

  • SMTP

  • SMTPS

  • SSH

  • WHOIS

Depending on the chosen rule protocol, additional fields might appear.

Delete a security group rule

To delete a rule you need to click on the “Delete rule” button at the end of the row.

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