Make sure ColdFusion notifies you if your site in inaccessible. Embed a hidden comment in your Application.cfm (or OnRequestEnd.cfm) and then create a probe to retrieve your home page (or any other page) checking for the presence of that comment. If failure occurs for any reason the probe can...
Using CF Enterprise's System Probes feature you can easily monitor the health of your application's data sources - all at once. Simple create a page that does a simple query against every defined data source, one after the other (so as to not impact performance, make it a query that returns no...
The ColdFusion Administrator's Server Configuration page displays all servers in a cluster and their status (the probe indicator). Red indicates probe failure, yellow indicates a suspended probe (temporarily inactive), green indicates available, and gray indicates that a probe is disabled (or not...
ColdFusion can be used in clustered environments - both software only clusters and hardware/software clusters. When using the latter you may need a mechanism by which to instruct the hardware to temporarily suspend sending requests to a particular server. Using the ColdFusion Administrator's Server...
ColdFusion creates and writes to log files - lots of them. Looking for a quick way to check which if any have been updated recently? Look no further than the ColdFusion Administrator's Log Files page. Click on the top of the Last Modified column to sort the list of files chronologically by the...
The ColdFusion Administrator Log Files screen allows you to merge log files so as to browse their combined results. Any two log files may be selected (by checking the check boxes to their left). Once selected, click the View Log Files button to combine and display the contents. (Applies to:...
The ColdFusion Administrator Log Files screen displays a list of log files and a set of control icons for each. The Download Log File icon (second from the left) allows you to download log files in CSV (comma-delimited) format which may be read into Excel and other applications for further...
Click the Launch Filter button in the Log Viewer screen to display the log filter dialog. Using the form in this dialog you may specify a filter condition so as to restrict displayed entries to a specific subset, for example, those containing certain keywords, specific severity levels, and those...
The log file viewer typically displays ten entries at a time. Selecting Compact View (a checkbox at the top of the Log Viewer page) to display truncated messages so as to be able to display twenty entries at a time. (Applies to: ColdFusion 5 (or later))
Log files can grow rapidly making finding data difficult. To help you locate specific data you may sort log file entries by date, time, severity, thread id, or application name. Sorting by thread name can help you associate multiple log entries generated by the same client. (Applies to: ColdFusion...