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Resource Protection

Some resources may be important and should never be touched by Fix Inventory even if a user, plugin, or automated job flags them for cleanup.

Imagine a CI account where most of the resources are not important and could be deleted, aside from the CI server itself. In this case, you could protect the CI server from accidental deletion.

Protecting Resources​

To protect a resource, simply perform a search and pipe the result to protect.

> search is(aws_ec2_instance) and name = jenkins-master | protect "Jenkins Master"

A better way of automatically protecting resources is to use the protector infrastructure app or by running a job.

Finding Protected Resources​

> search /metadata.protected = true

Unprotecting a Resource​

Pipe a resource to set_metadata protected=false to unprotect a resource.

Example:

> search name = jenkins-master | set_metadata protected=false