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CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION 10
Working with Server Manager
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Create Groups
Using the Server Manager, you can create groups and associate a registered or new server to one or more groups. To
create groups and associate servers to groups:
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Click Groups > Add from the Groups menu.
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In the Add Group dialog box, enter the name of the new group and click Apply.
A new tab for the group is created in the right-pane of Server Manager.
To associate a server instance to a group:
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Select the server instances and click Edit.
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In the Edit Server dialog box, select the group to which you need to add the server instance.
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Click Apply.
To verify that the selected server has been added to the group, click the group tab.
To edit or remove existing groups from Server Manager, click the group tab. From the Groups menu select Edit or
Remove to modify or remove a group from Server Manager.
Manage multiple servers
You can perform batch operations on multiple ColdFusion Server instances from Server Manager.
When you drag and drop any setting, if that setting exists on the server where the settings are being dropped, the
settings get overridden with the new settings. For example, if data source named XXX is being dropped on a server and
if that data source already exists on the other server, then the data source gets overridden with the new setting, without
any warning.
In a batch operation, you can perform the following tasks:
Apply configuration settings on multiple servers
The left-pane of Server Manager lists the settings that you can configure for one or more ColdFusion servers. To apply
configuration settings on multiple ColdFusion servers:
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Configure the settings for one ColdFusion server using the settings available in the left-pane of the Server Manager.
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Select the other ColdFusion servers to which the settings have to be applied.
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Right-click a setting and select the Apply to Selected Servers option. Alternatively, you can drag-and-drop the
setting to the selected servers in the right-pane of the Server Manager.
At the bottom of the Server Manager window, a progress bar displays the status of the setting being applied. Once
the task is completed, a message is displayed to confirm if the task was successful.
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On the right-side of the progress bar, there are two icons, Remove and Save Snapshot. To save a batch operation
log, click the Save Snapshot icon and save the log file.
Apart from applying settings to multiple ColdFusion servers, you can use the Server Manager to perform the following
actions: