Understanding the blockedby Flow property from MSP API

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Chris

• February 18, 2025 02:13

I'm utilizing the MSP APIs to help in evaluating Target List efficacy. Specifically I'm trying to programmatically understand the "blockedby" property on the Flow objects.

The problem is, with the exception of "ingress_firewall" which is obvious, the values returned by the API do not make sense to me. The UI does a great job of showing very clearly what each blocked flow is blocked by so I'm guessing this is just a mapping problem.

How do I map the values that come back from the API to something more human readable?

For example - a quick dump of a page of results yields blockedBy values of:

• 1
• 5
• 10
• <some guid>
• ingress_firewall

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  Firewalla Team

  • February 18, 2025 07:37

  The Rule ID will be returned. You can list all rules detail including ID and name mapping with MSP API: 

  get https://msp_domain/v2/rules

  The ID of each rule is viewable at the bottom of the rule detail on MSP UI. In case, you want to validate the output.

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  Chris

  • February 20, 2025 03:00

  Fantastic thank you.

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