Administering ColdFusion 8

Administering ColdFusion 8 teaches system administrators and developers how to effectively install, configure, secure, and manage ColdFusion servers in a variety of different configurations. It is a two-day, hands-on course.

• Basic understanding of web network architecture and concepts
• Experience using Microsoft Windows

Section I: INSTALLING COLDFUSION 8

Unit 1: Installing ColdFusion 8

• 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
• File system permissions
• Troubleshooting installation problems
  • Command-line startup
  • TCP/IP Issues
    • Using Netstat
    • Software firewalls

Unit 2: Configuring ColdFusion for the Enterprise

• Clustering Options
• Solutions for Failover and Content Replication
• Implementing and Managing a Cluster with Multiserver edition
• Separating application and web servers
  • CF Distributed Mode
  • Using a reverse proxy

Unit 3: 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

SECTION II: SERVER CONFIGURATION

Unit 4: 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

Unit 5: Managing Server Extensions

• Java Applets
• CFX Tags
• Custom Tag Paths
• CORBA Connections
• Flex Integration
• Communicating with LiveCycle Data Services ES
• RMI over SSL for Data Management

Unit 6: Managing Asynchronous Processes

• 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

• Configuring Sandbox Security
• Creating and Restoring CAR Files
• Compiling and Deploying an EAR/WAR file

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

• Load testing techniques
• Reviewing debug output
• Reviewing Log files

Unit 9: Using the ColdFusion (Multi) Server Monitoring

• Overhead considerations
• Executing Reports
• Reading reports
• Configuring Alerts