CREATE NEW NSG (NETWORK SECURITY GROUP - VIRTUAL FIREWALL ACL) ON MICROSOFT AZURE
POWERSHELL - EXPORT AZURE NSG (NETWORK SECURITY GROUP) RULES TO EXCEL
MICROSOFT AZURE POWERSHELL: CREATING NEW NSG (NETWORK SECURITY GROUP)
Here I had got a task to clone or copy existing NSG in the Azure Powershell. I already have created one Template Network Security Group and all rules are created in it. As I required Rules, Need to run below command to know store all the rule in powershell variable. This will not copy default firewall rules, Only manually created rules information are stored.
$TemplateNSGRules = Get-AzureRmNetworkSecurityGroup -Name 'Windows-NSG' -ResourceGroupName 'POC-VPN' | Get-AzureRmNetworkSecurityRuleConfig
As I need rules only I will create new NSG.
$NSG = New-AzureRmNetworkSecurityGroup -ResourceGroupName 'POC-VPN' -Location 'East US 2' -Name 'Copy-of-Windows-NSG'
Next with the help of foreach loop I will copy inject all the rules from Template NSG to newly created rules.
foreach ($rule in $TemplateNSGRules) {
$NSG | Add-AzureRmNetworkSecurityRuleConfig -Name $rule.Name -Direction $rule.Direction -Priority $rule.Priority -Access $rule.Access -SourceAddressPrefix $rule.SourceAddressPrefix -SourcePortRange $rule.SourcePortRange -DestinationAddressPrefix $rule.DestinationAddressPrefix -DestinationPortRange $rule.DestinationPortRange -Protocol $rule.Protocol # -Description $rule.Description
$NSG | Set-AzureRmNetworkSecurityGroup
}
Sane way importing NSG from excel file will work. follow this article to create CSV excel file - POWERSHELL - EXPORT AZURE NSG (NETWORK SECURITY GROUP) RULES TO EXCEL.to import.
$TemplateNSGRules = Import-CSV -Path C:\Temp\TestNSG01.csv
Create new empty NSG firewall, and run the foreach script block as shown above.
