Course Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of web network architecture and concepts
• Experience using Microsoft Windows
• Basic understanding of ColdFusion syntax (optional)
  

Course Objectives

• Install and Configure multiple load-balanced ColdFusion instances for robustness
  
• Modify your JVM.config file to take full advantage of your hardware
• Troubleshoot memory leaks and stability problems
• Secure your server
• Tune your server settings
• Synchronize settings between servers
• Load test your applications to identify concurrency problems and bottlenecks
• Implement various caching strategies to improve performance
  

Course Outline

Section I: INSTALLING COLDFUSION 8

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

Unit 2: Installing ColdFusion 8

• What is ColdFusion - underlying architecture
  
• Installation Components
  
• Installing the standalone server
• Installing Multiserver edition
• Installing on J2EE
• Web Server Connectivity Issues
  • Configuring IIS
  • Configuring Apache 
  • Configuring the Built-in development web server
• Troubleshooting installation problems
  • Command-line startup
  • TCP/IP Issues
    • Using Netstat
    • Software firewalls

Unit 3: Configuring ColdFusion for the Enterprise

• Clustering Options
• Solutions for Failover and Content Replication
• Implementing and Managing a Cluster with Multiserver edition
• Restricting service access to the OS
• Enabling custom JVM.config files
• Enabling sandbox security
  
• Separating application and web servers
  • CF Distributed Mode
  • Using a reverse proxy

Unit 4: Securing the ColdFusion Administrator

• Putting the Administrator in its own site
• Integrating with Basic Authentication
• Configuring the scripts path
• Changing the root user name
• Managing admin users accounts
• Customizing options through CustomMenu.xml
• Restricting Access to Administrative Options
• Configuring Server Sandboxes for hosted environments
  

SECTION II: SERVER CONFIGURATION

Unit 5: Tuning the CF Server for Performance

• About JVM Memory
• Tuning the JVM
• SQL Drivers
• Caching
• Request Tuning
• Debugging
• Client Variables
• Memory Variables and the impact of web spiders
• Charting
• Verity K2 - configuring, clustering, and managing
• Alternative full-text search solutions

• Scheduled Tasks
• Common problems
• Using the OS scheduler as an alternative
• Async Gateways
• Troubleshooting problems with Mail
• Testing mail connectivity with telnet

SECTION III: APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT AND TROUBLESHOOTING

Unit 7: Packaging and Deployment

• Creating and Restoring CAR Files
• Compiling and Deploying an EAR/WAR file
• Deploying New Instances
  

Unit 8: Troubleshooting and Load Testing Applications Pre/Post Launch

• Load testing techniques
• Reviewing debug output
• Reviewing Log files
• Using the ColdFusion (Multi) Server Monitor
• Overhead considerations
• Executing Reports
• Reading reports
• Configuring Alerts
• Tools for heap dumps and analysis
  
• Troubleshoot memory leaks with ORACLE JRockit Mission Control
  

Unit 9: Resolving Bottlenecks in Code

• Threading
• Database Caching
• Caching Page Results