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CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION 10
Basic Troubleshooting and FAQs
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During installation, you typically start ColdFusion services and processes, and configure them to start and run
whenever you start your system. After you perform any of the following actions in the ColdFusion Administrator, stop
and restart ColdFusion services:
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Enable or disable security.
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Change any option in the Java and JVM Settings page.
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Enable performance monitoring options, which enable you to use the native Windows performance monitor.
During setup, ColdFusion is installed as a set of system services, which typically start automatically at system startup.
Stop or start ColdFusion server services manually
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Open the Services control panel window. If a service is running, its status is Started. If it is not running, no status
appears.
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To stop a service, select it and click Stop. A prompt asks you to verify that you want to stop the service; click Yes.
The status of the service is no longer Started.
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To start a service, select it and click Start. Its status is Started.
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To restart a service: select it and click Restart. This is identical to stopping and starting a service.
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Click Close. The Services window closes.
Configure ColdFusion server to start automatically or manually
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In the Services control panel window, double-click a service. The window for the service opens.
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For Startup Type, select Automatic or Manual.
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Click OK. The configuration is saved.
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Click Close. The Services window closes.
How do I configure performance monitor?
Note:
This discussion does not apply when deploying ColdFusion on a J2EE server.
Performance Monitor overview
If you install ColdFusion in Windows, you can use the Windows Performance Monitor utility to track the performance
of your server. This utility installs automatically as part of the ColdFusion installation, and works with a set of counters
to monitor server performance.The following are the available ColdFusion counters: that you can enable in the
Windows Performance Monitor:
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Average database transaction time
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Average queue time
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Average request time
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Bytes incoming per second
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Bytes outgoing per second
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Database hits per second
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Page hits per second
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Cache pops per second
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Number of queued requests