Disabling the Firewall To disable the firewall on each host in your cluster, perform the following steps on each host. For iptables, save the existing rule set: sudo iptables-save > ~/firewall.rules Disable the firewall: RHEL 7 compatible:sudo systemctl disable firewalld sudo systemctl stop firewalld SLES:sudo chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_setup off sudo chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init off sudo rcSuSEfirewall2 stop Ubuntu: sudo service ufw stop Parent topic: Before You Install