diff --git a/doc/source/development/automated.rst b/doc/source/development/automated.rst
index f428b7ee5832d44de407cf451663cba33e735cb7..0cf3b248aa45473bc6d7466ffabefe07f6e37501 100644
--- a/doc/source/development/automated.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development/automated.rst
@@ -143,6 +143,11 @@ Verify that VirtualBMC is running::
 
     ~/tenks-venv/bin/vbmc list
 
+Configure the firewall to allow the baremetal nodes to access OpenStack
+services::
+
+    ./dev/configure-firewall.sh
+
 We are now ready to run the ``dev/overcloud-test-baremetal.sh`` script. This
 will run the ``init-runonce`` setup script provided by Kolla Ansible that
 registers images, networks, flavors etc. It will then deploy a bare metal