Turn on accidental protection for a firewall

Accidental protection keeps a firewall from being deleted or reinstalled by mistake. While it is on, Delete Firewall and Reinstall Firewall open a notice instead of the action. Every other action stays available, so you can still power the firewall off, reboot it, or upgrade it.

To grey out start, power off, reboot, reinstall, upgrade, and delete instead, see Lock a firewall.

Before you begin

You need a role in the project that can update firewalls.

Turn accidental protection on

1. In MyAccount, under Network, click Firewall.
2. On Manage Firewall, in the firewall’s row, click Actions, then Enable Accidental Protection.
3. The dialog asks Are you sure you want to enable accidental protection for this Node : ? Click Enable.

Check that it is on

In the firewall’s Actions menu, Disable Accidental Protection now takes the place of Enable Accidental Protection. On the Manage Firewall list, a shield icon beside the firewall’s name, Accidental Protection mode is enabled, shows that accidental protection is on.

Choose Delete Firewall or Reinstall Firewall to see it work. The dialog reads This action cannot be performed while the accidental protection mode is enabled.

Turn accidental protection off

To delete or reinstall the firewall later, turn accidental protection off first: in the firewall’s Actions menu, click Disable Accidental Protection, and confirm. Then follow Delete a firewall or Reinstall a firewall.