Disable a wire group

This page describes how to disable a wire group in a cross-site network.

Disabling a wire group stops all traffic through the wire group. You can re-enable the wire group at any time.

Console

To disable a wire group in a cross-site network, do the following:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Interconnect page.

    Go to Interconnect

  2. On the Cross-site networks tab, click the name of the wire group that you want to disable.

  3. On the Wire group details page, click Edit.

  4. In the Admin enabled state field, deselect the Active checkbox.

  5. Click Save.

You can re-enable the wire group by updating the wire group with the Active checkbox selected.

gcloud

To disable a wire group in a cross-site network, update the wire group and set the --no-admin-enabled flag.

Use the gcloud beta compute interconnects wire-groups update command.

gcloud beta compute interconnects wire-groups update WIRE_GROUP_NAME \
    --cross-site-network=NETWORK_NAME \
    --no-admin-enabled

Replace the following:

  • WIRE_GROUP_NAME: the name of the wire group
  • NETWORK_NAME: the name of the cross-site network that contains the wire group

You can re-enable the wire group by updating the wire group with the --admin-enabled flag.

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