1 General

In General you can find the following information about your node environment:

  • Status
  • Running since date
  • Mode
  • URL
  • Java version
  • Runtime version
  • Administrator user name
  • Database Status
  • Database Version
  • Region
  • Mendix Cloud Version

1.1 Actions

On the right side of the screen you can find the following action buttons:

  • Start/Stop Application
  • Show Logged in Users
  • Change Admin Password
  • View Current Log
  • Disable Debugging - for more information about enabling the debugger, read the documentation Debug Microflows Remotely

1.2 Overviews

At the bottom of the page there are two overview grids with information about the:

  • License
  • Loaded deployment package

1.3 License

The license overview contains the following information:

  • Company owning the license
  • License type
  • Expiration date
  • Runtime mode: Production/Acceptance/Test
  • Limitations
    • Limitation type
    • Amount type
    • Number of allowed users

Limitation types:

  • Concurrent - the amount of named users that are logged in simultaneously
  • Concurrent anonymous - the amount of anonymous users that are logged in simultaneously
  • Named - the amount of named users registered in the database that are allowed to use the application

1.4 Loaded Deployment Package

Below you can find information about the deployment package that is currently loaded into the environment:

  • The size of the deployment package
  • The upload date
  • The version of the deployment package
  • The name of the deployment package

2 Model Options

On the second tab of the Environment details page you can edit the following model options:

  • Scheduled events
  • Constants

2.1 Schedulded events

In this section you can view your configured scheduled events. If you select a scheduled event and click Toggle, you can switch the scheduled event off/on.

You have to restart your application before the changes will be made.

With scheduled events you can let the runtime execute a microflow at a specific moment in time. The event can also be repeated with a given interval, for example every day.

For more information, read the documentation about Scheduled Events

2.2 Constants

In this section you can view the configured constants. Constants are used to define configuration values that can differ per environment. If you select a constant and click Edit, you can fill in the new value.

You have to restart your application before the changes will be made.

For more information, read the documentation about Constants

3 Network

On the third tab of the Environment details page you can manage the following:

  • Custom domains
  • Prevent embedding your app in an IFrame
  • Request Handlers
  • Access Restriction Profiles
  • Environment Access Restrictions
  • Request Handler Resttrictions
  • Outgoing Connections Certificates

3.1 Custom Domains

  • Domain name
  • Certificate
  • Expire

You can take the following actions:

  • Create. Here you have to provide the domainname and select the certificate from a dropdown
  • Edit
  • Delete

3.2 Prevent embedding your app in an IFrame

Your application can be embedded in another site using an IFrame. To prevent this, you can deny embedding using the setting below. This will set an X-Frame-Options header for each HTTP response from your app. Please note that Chrome will ignore the “Allow from specific domain” option.

The embedding options are:

  • Allow
  • Never allow
  • Allow on the same domain
  • Allow from specific domain

3.3 Request Handlers

Configure Custom Request Handlers for requests that will be sent to the runtime. If you enable /ws/, these requests will end up at the runtime. Everything not specified here, except for /xas/ and /file will end up at the static file server which serves the web folder from disk.

  • Path
  • Match type
  • Enabled in
    • Environment: Production, Acceptance, Test
    • N/A

If you are configuring the request handlers for example in the acceptance environment and the request handlers are only enabled in for example the production environment, select the request handler and click Toggle to enable it in the environment that you are configuring.

You can take the following actions:

  • Toggle
  • New request handler. You must provide the path and choose the match type between ‘starts with’ and ‘exact match’
  • Delete the request handler

3.4 Access Restriction Profiles

You can restrict access to your application by means of Client Certificates or IP ranges. Here you can define the profiles that can be used on the full application or specific request handlers.

  • Description
  • Used for

You can take the following actions:

  • New
    • Demand that:
      • Certificates should match
      • Certificate or IP should match
      • IP should match
    • Add an Description
    • View in which environment it is active - Production/Acceptance/Test
    • Add an Certificate authority
  • Edit
  • Delete

3.5 Environment Access Restrictions

You can restrict access to your application by means of Client Certificates or IP ranges. To enable this, first create an access restriction profile before selecting it from the dropdown menu below.

3.6 Request Handler Access Restrictions

Advanced: You can override access restrictions for specific Request Handlers. To do this, please specify an access restriction per Request Handler in the list below.

3.7 Outgoing Connections Certificates

Add client certificates (in PKCS12 format) or certificate authorites (in PEM format). These will be used when your application initiates SSL/TLS connections.

4 Loglevels

Log levels are used to distinguish the log messages and to highlight the highest priority ones so that they can receive the immediate intervention they require.

At this tab of the Environment details you can do the following:

  • Retreive the current loglevels by clicking the Refresh button
  • Change the loglevel type by clicking on the specific level
  • Click the Set all to INFO button to revert all the changes

The loglevel types are:

  • None
  • Critical
  • Error
  • Warning
  • Info
  • Debug
  • Trace

For more information about loglevels, read the Set Log Levels documentation.

5 Runtime

At this tab of the Environment details you can do the following:

  • Add a new runtime setting with a new value
  • Edit the runtime setting
  • Delete the runtime settings

For more information about runtime settings, read the Custom Settings documentation.

6 Maintenance

There are two types of maintenance:

  • Regular weekly maintenance which is not affecting your App where you can change the preffered maintenance window
  • Planned maintenance that will affect your App in some ways. You will automatically receive an email about this and you can override the maintenance window.

For more information about the maintenance, read the How to Configure Maintenance Windows documentation.

6.1 Preffered maintenance window

You can view and change the preffered maintenance.

6.2 Planned maintenance

When a maintenance operation is planned, it will show up under Planned Maintenance. By default it will be planned in your preferred maintenance window. You can override the maintenance window of a specific maintenance operation by clicking Override.

You will automatically receive email notifications about planned maintenances.

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