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Securing UI Access with IP-Based Controls

Securing UI Access with IP-Based Controls

This topic explains how to configure trusted IP addresses for UI and API access, allowing administrators to define which IP address can interact with specific user interface and API components. By implementing IP-based access controls, you can add an extra layer of protection, ensuring that only traffic from approved IP ranges can access watsonx.data. For more information, see What are context-based restrictions?.

Before you begin

To configure trusted IP addresses for UI access, you must have Administrator privileges for the account.

Configuring trusted IP access

  1. Sign in to IBM Cloud. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

  2. From the IBM Cloud Console, navigate to Manage > Context-based restrictions.

  3. From the Navigation pane, click Rules.

  4. Click Create+. The New rule page opens. Select watsonx.data service from the list.

  5. Click Next. Select all APIs.

  6. Click Next. From Resources, select Specific resource option and choose watsonx.data. You can review the selection.

  7. Click Continue. From the Network zones, click Create and provide the list of IP addresses in the Allowed IP addresses field.

  8. From the Reference a service section, select watsonx.data as the service. Click Continue. The rule is created successfully.

    For more information, see Creating context-based restrictions and Enforcing context-based restrictions.

Limitation

Context-based restrictions does not work for account-scoped lite instances.