User Guide

14 Chapter 1: Administering ColdFusion MX

Accessing user assistance

You can obtain assistance from the ColdFusion MX Administrator in the following ways:

• Online Help You access the context-sensitive online Help by clicking the question-mark icon

on any ColdFusion MX Administrator page. The online Help has procedural and brief

overview content for the ColdFusion MX Administrator page that you are viewing. This

information appears in a new browser window and contains standard Contents, Index, and

Search tabs.

• Documentation Click the link to access the entire ColdFusion MX documentation set

online.

• Examples The example applications provide samples for you to learn about ColdFusion

MX.

• Tech notes You can access the collection of articles about ColdFusion MX from the

Macromedia website.

Administrator layout

The home page of the ColdFusion MX Administrator includes links to Documentation, the

Macromedia Servers TechNotes Knowledge Base, Release Notes, System Information, online

Help, and Code Examples.

The tasks that you perform in the ColdFusion MX Administrator are grouped into the following

sections. Each section contains links to pages for managing aspects of the system.

• Server Settings Manage whitespace, client and memory variables, locking, and mappings.

charting and graphing engine, and create and manage archives.

• Data & Services Configure data sources, Verity collections, and the Verity K2 Server.

Define mappings to web services.

• Debugging & Logging Manage options that can assist you in troubleshooting your

ColdFusion applications. Manage scheduled tasks, system probes, and a variety of log files and

server statistics. Run the Code Compatibility Analyzer to assist you in migrating older

ColdFusion applications.

• Extensions Configure and register Java Applets, CORBA ORBs, and CFX Tags.

• Security Control passwords for ColdFusion MX Administrator and Remote Development

Services (RDS) access. Restrict the use of resources, such as data sources.

For more information about each section, see Chapter 2, “Basic ColdFusion MX

Administration,” on page 17.

Server Settings section

The Server Settings section contains the following areas:

• Settings Manage the number of simultaneous requests, request timeouts, whitespace, and

handlers.

• Caching Manage caching options for memory, database connection time, the number of

cached queries, and using a trusted template cache.