New FW rule to existing in-line layer

[Rob_A]

Anyone that tried to create new fw rule within an existing in-line layer with curl or python requests?

[PhoneBoy]

You can definitely do it.
Keep in mind that that an inline layer can potentially be re-used in other policy packages.
So you have to refer to that specific layer when you want to make modifications.
Some related discussion here: https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion/show-access-rulebase-along-with-inline-layers...

[Rob_A]

I saw that discussion before but it was related only to show-access-rulebase within an inline-layer and not create a new access rule within an inline-layer.

or am I missing something? 😞

[PhoneBoy]

In order to manipulate an inline layer via the API, you need to get its name or UID.
Thats where that thread is helpful.
There is a way to get it via SmartConsole as well.

[Rob_A]

I can see the underlying rules within a inline-layer with this post request

h = {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-chkp-sid': '{}'.format(sid) }

d = {"uid" : "0cbdba80-308a-4007-9701-c380c545deb9"}

r = requests.post(url + 'show-access-rulebase', headers=h, data=json.dumps(d), verify=False)

pprint(r.json())

{'from': 1,
'name': 'TEST_LAYER',
'objects-dictionary': [{'domain': {'domain-type': 'data domain',
'name': 'Check Point Data',
'uid': 'a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef'},
'name': 'Any',
'type': 'CpmiAnyObject',
'uid': '97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30'},
{'domain': {'domain-type': 'data domain',
'name': 'Check Point Data',
'uid': 'a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef'},
'name': 'Drop',
'type': 'RulebaseAction',
'uid': '6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c473'},
{'domain': {'domain-type': 'data domain',
'name': 'Check Point Data',
'uid': 'a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef'},
'name': 'None',
'type': 'Track',
'uid': '29e53e3d-23bf-48fe-b6b1-d59bd88036f9'},
{'domain': {'domain-type': 'data domain',
'name': 'Check Point Data',
'uid': 'a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef'},
'name': 'Policy Targets',
'type': 'Global',
'uid': '6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c476'}],
'rulebase': [{'action': '6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c473',
'action-settings': {},
'comments': '',
'content': ['97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30'],
'content-direction': 'any',
'content-negate': False,
'custom-fields': {'field-1': '', 'field-2': '', 'field-3': ''},
'destination': ['97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30'],
'destination-negate': False,
'domain': {'domain-type': 'domain',
'name': 'SMC User',
'uid': '41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde'},
'enabled': True,
'install-on': ['6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c476'],
'meta-info': {'creation-time': {'iso-8601': '2021-03-15T15:05+0100',
'posix': 1615817149454},
'creator': 'xagirobadm',
'last-modifier': 'xagirobadm',
'last-modify-time': {'iso-8601': '2021-03-15T15:05+0100',
'posix': 1615817149454},
'lock': 'unlocked',
'validation-state': 'ok'},
'name': 'Cleanup rule',
'rule-number': 1,
'service': ['97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30'],
'service-negate': False,
'source': ['97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30'],
'source-negate': False,
'time': ['97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30'],
'track': {'accounting': False,
'alert': 'none',
'enable-firewall-session': False,
'per-connection': False,
'per-session': False,
'type': '29e53e3d-23bf-48fe-b6b1-d59bd88036f9'},
'type': 'access-rule',
'uid': '3925bd94-5764-49c6-89a5-2ea3f218f87d',
'vpn': ['97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30']}],
'to': 1,
'total': 1,
'uid': '0cbdba80-308a-4007-9701-c380c545deb9'}

But still no luck adding new rule within this inline-layer (TEST-LAYER)

@PhoneBoy : do you have an exemple with curl or python request?

[PhoneBoy]

What precise API call did you make to try and do it?

[Rob_A]

h = {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-chkp-sid': '{}'.format(sid) }

d = {"layer" : "Network", "inline-layer" : "0cbdba80-308a-4007-9701-c380c545deb9", "position" : 1, "name" : "inline rule1", "source" : "new_host2",  "destination" : "new_host4", "action" : "Apply Layer", "service" : "any", "track" : "log", "comments" : "ROBS_TEST" }

r = requests.post(url + 'add-access-rule', headers=h, data=json.dumps(d), verify=False)

pprint(r.json())

[Bob_Zimmerman]

The body you provided is saying to add a new rule to the layer named "Network" which then passes matching traffic to the layer "0cbdba80-308a-4007-9701-c380c545deb9".

What does this call return to your program?

What do you want to happen instead?

[Rob_A]

It seems that it creates a "copy" of inline-layern TEST_LAYER, like a shared one..??

What I want is to add an underlying access rule to existing inline layer, in this case TEST_LAYER.   

[Diego_Escobar_A]

HI @Rob_A ,

If you want just add a rule in your inline layer.

Check the name of the inline layer. Using the module "show-access-layers"

Address: http://127.0.0.1:50277/web_api/v1.3/show-access-layers
Encoding: ISO-8859-1
Http-Method: POST
Content-Type: application/json
Headers: {Accept=[*/*], accept-encoding=[gzip, deflate, br], Cache-Control=[no-cache], connection=[keep-alive], Content-Length=[70], content-type=[application/json], Host=[127.0.0.1:50277], Postman-Token=[d83e3ed2-0c54-44e6-91d8-f63be888ff7e], User-Agent=[PostmanRuntime/7.26.8], X-chkp-sid=[255dcfc11685f477c0198bbe2184d278], X-Forwarded-For=[172.16.6.209], X-Forwarded-Host=[10.1.1.100], X-Forwarded-Host-Port=[443], X-Forwarded-Server=[10.1.1.100]}
Payload: {
"limit" : 50,
"offset" : 0,
"details-level" : "standard"
}

Response-Code: 200
Content-Type: application/json
Headers: {Content-Type=[application/json], Date=[Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:48:33 GMT]}
Payload: {
"access-layers" : [ {
{
"uid" : "329a689f-77c3-4be1-9c25-c52cfecbcd2d",
"name" : "Navegacion",
"type" : "access-layer",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "ca6c345d-69a8-4854-b2a9-e78d7698e229",
"name" : "domaintest",
"domain-type" : "domain"
}
}, {
"uid" : "1ed41347-fdbe-4139-a20b-42da72d91ef0",
"name" : "Network",
"type" : "access-layer",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "ca6c345d-69a8-4854-b2a9-e78d7698e229",
"name" : "domaintest",
"domain-type" : "domain"
}
} ],
"from" : 1,
"to" : 2,
"total" : 2
}

After that, create a rule like always with module add-access-rule

Address: http://127.0.0.1:50277/web_api/v1.3/add-access-rule
Encoding: ISO-8859-1
Http-Method: POST
Content-Type: application/json
Headers: {Accept=[*/*], accept-encoding=[gzip, deflate, br], Cache-Control=[no-cache], connection=[keep-alive], Content-Length=[114], content-type=[application/json], Host=[127.0.0.1:50277], Postman-Token=[0c782250-39e1-428b-9539-8522973a4eb6], User-Agent=[PostmanRuntime/7.26.8], X-chkp-sid=[0460973acad474eb653b28a5f7ec00fc], X-Forwarded-For=[172.16.6.209], X-Forwarded-Host=[10.1.1.100], X-Forwarded-Host-Port=[443], X-Forwarded-Server=[10.1.1.100]}
Payload: {
"layer" : "Navegacion",
"position" : 1,
"name" : "Rule Checkmates",
"service" : [ "SMTP", "AOL" ]
}

Response-Code: 200
Content-Type: application/json
Headers: {Content-Type=[application/json], Date=[Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:55:34 GMT]}
Payload: {
"uid" : "488e9ac6-4fcb-4e5e-b8dd-c2e7e2676f5a",
"name" : "Rule Checkmates",
"type" : "access-rule",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "ca6c345d-69a8-4854-b2a9-e78d7698e229",
"name" : "domaintest",
"domain-type" : "domain"
},
"track" : {
"type" : {
"uid" : "29e53e3d-23bf-48fe-b6b1-d59bd88036f9",
"name" : "None",
"type" : "Track",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
},
"per-session" : false,
"per-connection" : false,
"accounting" : false,
"enable-firewall-session" : false,
"alert" : "none"
},
"layer" : "329a689f-77c3-4be1-9c25-c52cfecbcd2d",
"source" : [ {
"uid" : "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30",
"name" : "Any",
"type" : "CpmiAnyObject",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
} ],
"source-negate" : false,
"destination" : [ {
"uid" : "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30",
"name" : "Any",
"type" : "CpmiAnyObject",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
} ],
"destination-negate" : false,
"service" : [ {
"uid" : "97aeb3d9-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30",
"name" : "smtp",
"type" : "service-tcp",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
},
"port" : "25"
}, {
"uid" : "97aeb44f-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30",
"name" : "AOL",
"type" : "service-tcp",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
},
"port" : "5190"
} ],
"service-negate" : false,
"vpn" : [ {
"uid" : "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30",
"name" : "Any",
"type" : "CpmiAnyObject",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
} ],
"action" : {
"uid" : "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c473",
"name" : "Drop",
"type" : "RulebaseAction",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
},
"action-settings" : { },
"content" : [ {
"uid" : "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30",
"name" : "Any",
"type" : "CpmiAnyObject",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
} ],
"content-negate" : false,
"content-direction" : "any",
"time" : [ {
"uid" : "97aeb369-9aea-11d5-bd16-0090272ccb30",
"name" : "Any",
"type" : "CpmiAnyObject",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
} ],
"custom-fields" : {
"field-1" : "",
"field-2" : "",
"field-3" : ""
},
"meta-info" : {
"lock" : "locked by current session",
"validation-state" : "ok",
"last-modify-time" : {
"posix" : 1617206133411,
"iso-8601" : "2021-03-31T17:55+0200"
},
"last-modifier" : "admin",
"creation-time" : {
"posix" : 1617206133411,
"iso-8601" : "2021-03-31T17:55+0200"
},
"creator" : "admin"
},
"comments" : "",
"enabled" : true,
"install-on" : [ {
"uid" : "6c488338-8eec-4103-ad21-cd461ac2c476",
"name" : "Policy Targets",
"type" : "Global",
"domain" : {
"uid" : "a0bbbc99-adef-4ef8-bb6d-defdefdefdef",
"name" : "Check Point Data",
"domain-type" : "data domain"
}
} ]
}
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[Bob_Zimmerman · Accepted solution]

It doesn't create a copy, it creates a new rule in the layer "Network" which references the same inline layer. It sounds like you want your request body to be more like this:

d = {"layer" : "0cbdba80-308a-4007-9701-c380c545deb9", "position" : 1, "name" : "inline rule1", "source" : "new_host2",  "destination" : "new_host4", "action" : "Accept", "service" : "any", "track" : "log", "comments" : "ROBS_TEST" }

[Rob_A]

And it works 🙂

Thanks!