How to disable an access rule via CLI

03/26/2020 13 12024

DESCRIPTION:

This article applies to the scenario where the user accidently adds an incorrect access rule and loses access to SonicWall management via HTTP/HTTPS.
In this case we can access SonicWall via console or SSH(if SSH is enabled on the interface) and  disable the incorrect access rule.

RESOLUTION:

Step 1: Accessing SonicWall Via console/SSH

• Accessing SonicWall via Console
• Accessing SonicWall via SSH

Step 2: Identifying the access rule ID

 In order to edit/disable the access rule we will have to identify the ID for that incorrectly configured access rule.

-Enter configure terminal, by executing the command “configure”.
-Run the following command to view the custom access rules from and to a particular zone.
“show access-rules from LAN to LAN custom”
-identify the access rule ID, in this case the ID is ‘0’.

Step 3: Disabling the access rule

-Edit the access rule with the following command- “access-rule id 0”
(Here 0 is the access rule ID that was identified earlier).
-Disable the rule by executing the command “no enable”.

Step 4: Saving the configuration.

-Execute the “commit” command to save the configuration.