Enables or disables a virtual private cloud (VPC) firewall. The VPC firewall protects traffic between two VPCs that are connected by using an Express Connect circuit.
Operation description
You can call the ModifyVpcFirewallSwitchStatus operation to enable or disable a VPC firewall. The VPC firewall protects traffic between two VPCs that are connected by using an Express Connect circuit. After you enable the VPC firewall, the VPC firewall protects access traffic between two VPCs that are connected by using an Express Connect circuit. After you disable the VPC firewall, the VPC firewall no longer protects access traffic between two VPCs that are connected by using an Express Connect circuit.
Before you call the operation, make sure that you created a VPC firewall by calling the CreateVpcFirewallConfigure operation.
Limits
You can call this operation up to 10 times per second per account. If the number of the calls per second exceeds the limit, throttling is triggered. As a result, your business may be affected. We recommend that you take note of the limit when you call this operation.
Debugging
Authorization information
The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:
- Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
- Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
- Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level,
All Resourcesis used in the Resource type column of the operation.
- Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
- Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
| Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yundun-cloudfirewall:ModifyVpcFirewallSwitchStatus | Write |
|
| none |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lang | string | No | The language of the content within the request and response. Valid values:
| zh |
| VpcFirewallId | string | Yes | The instance ID of the VPC firewall. Note
You can call the DescribeVpcFirewallList operation to query the instance IDs of VPC firewalls.
| vfw-m5e7dbc4y**** |
| FirewallSwitch | string | Yes | Specifies whether to enable the VPC firewall. Valid values:
| open |
| MemberUid | string | No | The UID of the member that is managed by your Alibaba Cloud account. | 258039427902**** |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSONformat
{
"RequestId": "850A84D6-0DE4-4797-A1E8-00090125afj2"
}Error codes
| HTTP status code | Error code | Error message | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | ErrorDBUpdateError | A database update error occurred. | A database update error occurred. |
| 400 | ErrorFirewallSwitch | The firewall enabling parameter is incorrect. Please select again. | The specified switch of the firewall is invalid. Enter another value. |
| 400 | ErrorDBTxError | A database transaction error occurred. | The error message returned because an internal error has occurred in the database transaction. |
| 400 | ErrorRecordLog | An error occurred while updating the operation log. | An error occurred while updating the operation log. |
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.