Purpose
The campus firewall continues to be one of the strongest defenses against world-wide threats who constantly attack systems on the campus network. The goal of Firewall Rule Viewer is to give trusted IT Owners on campus who need to audit rules for their group read-only access to review firewall rules in a secure manner. This replaces the insecure practice of emailing firewall rule configurations or people saving them locally, however in most cases they still have to know how to interpret very technical configurations.
Access Requirements
- Network Restriction: Limited to on-campus or via VPN
- Authentication: UCI Web Single Sign-On
- Authorization: KSAMS role membership (access request instructions here)
- For Campus Server Registration access: ITSEC “Firewall Rule Viewer – Campus” role
- For OIT internal access (which includes the campus access too): ITSEC “Firewall Rule Viewer – OIT” role
Instructions
1. Login to https://systems.oit.uci.edu/FirewallRuleViewer/
2. Choose Firewall (if the firewall you need is not listed, please contact security@uci.edu)
3. Click Submit to view the rules configuration, some firewall device technical information, date/time it was last changed and the date/time it was last refreshed.
– Note: These are filtered yet raw firewall configuration files, you must be somewhat knowledgeable in networking to understand the OIT internal choices. Border Firewall Server Registration is more straightforward.
– Note: Scheduled refresh of configuration data daily at 6:20am, 12:20pm, 5:20pm, 10:20pm
