community.windows.win_firewall_rule module – Windows firewall automation

Note

This module is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.13.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_firewall_rule.

Synopsis

  • Allows you to create/remove/update firewall rules.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

action

string

What to do with the items this rule is for.

Defaults to allow when creating a new rule.

Choices:

  • "allow"

  • "block"

description

string

Description for the firewall rule.

direction

string

Whether this rule is for inbound or outbound traffic.

Defaults to in when creating a new rule.

Choices:

  • "in"

  • "out"

enabled

aliases: enable

boolean

Whether this firewall rule is enabled or disabled.

Defaults to true when creating a new rule.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

group

string

The group name for the rule.

If name is not specified then the module will set the firewall options for all the rules in this group.

icmp_type_code

list / elements=string

The ICMP types and codes for the rule.

This is only valid when protocol is icmpv4 or icmpv6.

Each entry follows the format type:code where type is the type number and code is the code number for that type or * for all codes.

Set the value to just * to apply the rule for all ICMP type codes.

See https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmp-parameters/icmp-parameters.xhtml for a list of ICMP types and the codes that apply to them.

localip

string

The local ip address this rule applies to.

Set to any to apply to all local ip addresses.

Defaults to any when creating a new rule.

localport

string

The local port this rule applies to.

Set to any to apply to all local ports.

Defaults to any when creating a new rule.

Must have protocol set

name

string

The rule’s display name.

This is required unless group is specified.

profiles

aliases: profile

list / elements=string

The profile this rule applies to.

Defaults to domain,private,public when creating a new rule.

program

string

The program this rule applies to.

Set to any to apply to all programs.

Defaults to any when creating a new rule.

protocol

string

The protocol this rule applies to.

Set to any to apply to all services.

Defaults to any when creating a new rule.

remoteip

string

The remote ip address/range this rule applies to.

Set to any to apply to all remote ip addresses.

Defaults to any when creating a new rule.

remoteport

string

The remote port this rule applies to.

Set to any to apply to all remote ports.

Defaults to any when creating a new rule.

Must have protocol set

service

string

The service this rule applies to.

Set to any to apply to all services.

Defaults to any when creating a new rule.

state

string

Should this rule be added or removed.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • Multiple firewall rules can share the same name, if there are multiple matches then the module will set the user defined options for each matching rule.

See Also

See also

community.windows.win_firewall

The official documentation on the community.windows.win_firewall module.

Examples

- name: Firewall rule to allow SMTP on TCP port 25
  community.windows.win_firewall_rule:
    name: SMTP
    localport: 25
    action: allow
    direction: in
    protocol: tcp
    state: present
    enabled: yes

- name: Firewall rule to allow RDP on TCP port 3389
  community.windows.win_firewall_rule:
    name: Remote Desktop
    localport: 3389
    action: allow
    direction: in
    protocol: tcp
    profiles: private
    state: present
    enabled: yes

- name: Firewall rule to be created for application group
  community.windows.win_firewall_rule:
    name: SMTP
    group: application
    localport: 25
    action: allow
    direction: in
    protocol: tcp
    state: present
    enabled: yes

- name: Enable all the Firewall rules in application group
  win_firewall_rule:
    group: application
    enabled: yes

- name: Firewall rule to allow port range
  community.windows.win_firewall_rule:
    name: Sample port range
    localport: 5000-5010
    action: allow
    direction: in
    protocol: tcp
    state: present
    enabled: yes

- name: Firewall rule to allow ICMP v4 echo (ping)
  community.windows.win_firewall_rule:
    name: ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request
    enabled: yes
    state: present
    profiles: private
    action: allow
    direction: in
    protocol: icmpv4
    icmp_type_code:
    - '8:*'

- name: Firewall rule to alloc ICMP v4 on all type codes
  community.windows.win_firewall_rule:
    name: ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request
    enabled: yes
    state: present
    profiles: private
    action: allow
    direction: in
    protocol: icmpv4
    icmp_type_code: '*'

Authors

  • Artem Zinenko (@ar7z1)

  • Timothy Vandenbrande (@TimothyVandenbrande)