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// * installing/install_config/configuring-firewall.adoc

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= Reference flags for the `commatrix` plugin

The following matrix describes the flags for the `commatrix` plugin.

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|Flag |Type |Description

|`--customEntriesFormat` |string |Define the format of a custom entries file. The plugin appends the entries in this file to the generated data. Supported values are `json`, `yaml`, or `csv`.

|`--customEntriesPath` |string |Define the file path to a custom entries file. The plugin appends the entries in this file to the generated data.

|`--debug` |boolean |Enable verbose logging for debugging. The default value is `false`.

|`--destDir` |string |Define the directory for output files. The default value is `communication-matrix`.

|`--format` |string |Define the output format. Supported values are `json`, `yaml`, `csv`, or `nft`. The default value is `csv`.

|`--host-open-ports` |boolean |Generate the expected communication data for the cluster environment. Identify the actual open ports on the cluster node to compare the difference between the expected open ports and the actual open ports. You can view the differences in the generated `matrix-diff-ss` file in the destination directory.

|`-h` |boolean |Display the plugin help information.
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