17.2 Checking firewalld Status

The firewalld service is not usually installed and enabled by default on all Ubuntu installations. The status of the service can be checked via the following command:

# systemctl status firewalld

● firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-04-10 10:17:54 EDT; 20s ago

     Docs: man:firewalld(1)

 Main PID: 4488 (firewalld)

    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)

   CGroup: /system.slice/firewalld.service

           └─4488 /usr/bin/python3 -Es /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid

 

Apr 10 10:17:54 demo-server systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon...

Apr 10 10:17:54 demo-server systemd[1]: Started...