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Managing ColdFusion MX

The ColdFusion MX installation creates a few services in Windows and a single process on
UNIX. The following sections describe how to manage them:
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"Managing ColdFusion MX services in Windows" on page 51
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"Managing the ColdFusion MX process on UNIX" on page 53

Managing ColdFusion MX services in Windows

This section describes the ColdFusion MX services and explains how to manage them. It also
describes how to run ColdFusion MX in Windows 98/ME, which does not use services in its
architecture.
Overview of services
The ColdFusion MX server configuration installation creates the following service in Windows
NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003:
Service
ColdFusion MX
Application Server
The JRun 4 with ColdFusion MX J2EE configuration installation creates the following services in
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003:
Service
Macromedia JRun Admin
Server
Macromedia JRun
CFusion Server
Macromedia JRun Default
Server
All Windows configurations install the following services for ODBC support:
Service
ColdFusion MX ODBC
Agent
ColdFusion MX ODBC
Server
Starting and stopping services
This section describes how to start and stop Windows services.
Note: In the ColdFusion MX Administrator, if you enable or disable security or change any option in
the Java and JVM Settings page, you must stop and restart ColdFusion MX for your changes to take
effect. This applies to the server configuration only; in the J2EE configuration, you use application-
server-specific methods to update Java settings.
Purpose
The main ColdFusion service. ColdFusion pages cannot be processed
if this service is not running.
Purpose
Runs the JRun admin server, used by the JRun Management Console
(JMC).
Runs the JRun cfusion server. Contains ColdFusion MX deployed as
an enterprise application.
Runs the JRun default server. If you don't use this server, set this
service to manual to conserve resources.
Purpose
The service used to configure data sources for the ColdFusion MX
ODBC Server.
The middle-tier service for ODBC connections that use the ColdFusion
MX DataDirect drivers for Microsoft Access and ODBC Socket.

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