Crash Protection Restrictions

Crash Protection restrictions are designed to let you specify which pages you want to be monitored by the Crash Protection system, or alternatively, which pages you do NOT wish to be monitored. All remaining pages to be protected. To select which mode the Restrictions page works in, change the Restrictions option on the Crash Protection Settings page.

The Crash Protection Restrictions page has two main areas: At the top of the page there is a form for you to enter new restrictions and below this is a list of all existing restrictions for this feature. To enter a restriction you will need to fill the following fields:
 

Request

This is the page you want to restrict. Firstly select if you are creating an "Exact Match" or "Regular Expression". Next enter the location of your page. By default the request will be an exact match and should look something like "/batchStats.cfm" or "/batch/dailyStats.cfm" (beginning with a '/' and without parameters). A good use of Regular Expressions here would be to restrict everything within a given folder. For examples of Regular Expressions, please see Regular Expressions and Restrictions.

Hostname

By default, FusionReactor will ignore the hostname and simply match based on the web path of a given request, but you can also opt to include it. If you enable Hostname checking then the request field should also include a hostname and look something like "productionMachine/batchStats.cfm". You should NOT include HTTP or HTTPS at the start of this string.

Parameters

By default, FusionReactor will ignore any parameters passed to a page, however, as with the Hostname, you can also opt to include them in your restriction. With parameter checking enabled, the request field should include the necessary parameters. For example "/batchStats.cfm?period=YEAR". Once again, Regular Expressions can be useful here when specifying multiple possible parameter values, or even specifying parameters where the order isn't fixed.

Exclude From/
Protection Type

The meaning of this field changed depending upon what mode the Crash Protection restrictions page is working in (Crash Protection Settings page). You can either select whether the specified request will be excluded from Crash Protection, or if it should be included.

Statistics

This field is only visible when the Crash Protection restrictions page is in exclude mode (Crash Protection Settings page). If you are excluding a request from Crash Protection because you know it will run for a long time, you can also exclude it from the general server statistics.

 

Once you submit the form the page will be refreshed and your new restriction will be listed at the bottom of the page.

Managing Existing Restrictions

Below the Add Restriction form you will see a list of all existing restrictions. Each restriction has two icons next to it:

 

Modify Restriction

Clicking on this icon will take you to the Modify Restriction page. From this page you can change any of the information which is listed above.

Delete Restriction

Clicking on this icon will prompt you if you are sure you want to delete this restriction. If you OK the dialog then the restriction will be removed from the Existing Restrictions list and the page will be refreshed.