# How Can I Manage/Monitor The SLES12 Firewall With Ansible?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-manage-monitor-the-sles12-firewall-with-ansible/31750>\
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**Created:** [November 29, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-manage-monitor-the-sles12-firewall-with-ansible/31750 "2019-11-29T14:05:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jon\_Adcock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Jon\_Adcock](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jon_Adcock)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-manage-monitor-the-sles12-firewall-with-ansible/31750/1 "2019-11-29T14:05:39Z")

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We use Ansible to manage/monitor the firewall (iptables & firewalld) on numerous Linux OSes. But I am having trouble setting that up for the firewall on our 10 SLES12 servers (SuSEfirewall2). Can anyone provide some guidance on setting this up? Note that I have seen (and downloaded) the SuSEfirewall2 role by Billy Ray Valentine from Ansible Galaxy, but that role hasn’t been maintained or updated in 5 years. Plus it doesn’t have adequate set-up instructions.

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**Author:** ![Werner\_Flamme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@Werner\_Flamme](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Werner_Flamme)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-manage-monitor-the-sles12-firewall-with-ansible/31750/2 "2019-11-29T19:12:18Z")

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Jon,

if experimenting takes too long: you can activate a repo called  
"Packagehub" on SLES 12. This repo contains firewalld ... 🙂

In SLES 15, firewalld is the default.

I use SLES, but no firewalls on my SAP systems 🙂