With Release 8.1.3, you can configure System Manager outbound firewall by using the configureOutboundFirewall command.
When you configure the outbound firewall rule, System Manager can connect only to those destination system that are added in the allowed whitelist. Therefore, when you add the very first outbound firewall rule, ensure that you add all the required destination IP Addresses in the allowed whitelist to which System Manager will connect to.
By using the configureOutboundFirewall command, you can add, list, view status, disable, remove, and overwrite the IP addresses and FQDN in the whitelist for establishing the outbound connection from System Manager. You can also enable, disable, and view the status of logs for any connection that are dropped. This command supports the IPv4, IPv6, FQDN, and Network with Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation addresses.
Note the following:
In the Geographic Redundancy setup, if you need to configure the outbound firewall rules, then you need to add the peer IP addresses on the primary and secondary System Manager servers.
By using, the configureOutboundFirewall command, you cannot configure the outbound firewall in the Software-only environment.