SmartGroup Use Cases

SmartGroups Use Case 1

The following is an example of using SmartGroups:

Angel creates three SmartGroups:

  • Smart Group 1 = SAP_BW

  • Smart Group 2 = SAP_CRM

  • Smart Group 3 = Public CIDR of Hosted S4Hana

Angel has the following business objectives:

  • Allow BW and CRM to talk to PaaS endpoint S4Hana on port 443

  • Deny all traffic between BW and CRM

To achieve Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF) objectives, Angel does the following in CoPilot Home > Security > Distributed Cloud Firewall:

  • Builds firewalling policies that allow traffic from Smart Group 1 and 2 to talk on port 443 to Smart Group 3.

  • Creates a Deny All Policy for Smart Group 1 to talk to Smart Group 2. Note that after a SmartGroup is part of a policy, all traffic for that SmartGroup is denied unless explicitly allowed by DCF rules.

SmartGroup Use Case 2 (External Connection)

S2C DCF e2e

  1. Create a SmartGroup for RS1 (Remote Site 1).

  2. Create a SmartGroup for RS2 (Remote Site 2).

  3. Create a DCF rule to allow traffic from RS1 to VPC2.

  4. Create a DCF rule to deny traffic from RS2 to VPC2.

  5. Create a DCF Egress rule to allow specific web domains from RS1 to the Internet.

  6. Create a DCF rule to allow TCP/22 traffic from VPC1 to RS2.