Part I: Administering Coldfusion Mx; Accessing User Assistance; Administrator Layout; Server Settings Section - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61 - CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION MX Manual

Accessing user assistance

You can obtain assistance from the ColdFusion MX Administrator in the following ways:
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Online Help
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.
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Documentation
online.
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Examples The example applications provide samples for you to learn about ColdFusion
MX.
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Tech notes
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.
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Server Settings
Register a mail server and configure mail logging. Configure your JVM, the ColdFusion
charting and graphing engine, and create and manage archives.
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Data & Services
Define mappings to web services.
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Debugging & Logging
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.
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Extensions
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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
Administration," on page

Server Settings section

The Server Settings section contains the following areas:
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Settings Manage the number of simultaneous requests, request timeouts, whitespace, and
handlers.
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Caching
Manage caching options for memory, database connection time, the number of
cached queries, and using a trusted template cache.
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You access the context-sensitive online Help by clicking the question-mark icon
Click the link to access the entire ColdFusion MX documentation set
You can access the collection of articles about ColdFusion MX from the
Manage whitespace, client and memory variables, locking, and mappings.
Configure data sources, Verity collections, and the Verity K2 Server.
Manage options that can assist you in troubleshooting your
Configure and register Java Applets, CORBA ORBs, and CFX Tags.
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Chapter 2, "Basic ColdFusion MX