Server Configuration Page

After you have configured system probes, alarms, and/or an external third-party hardware load balancing device in ColdFusion, you can use the Server Configuration page to view and control the operating status of these devices. To access this page, in the ColdFusion Administrator, click Tools>Web Servers.

Ways to use the Server Configuration page

After your monitoring devices and alarms are configured in ColdFusion, use this page to:

 

Note: ColdFusion's Server Probes help you verify the health and operation of resources in your web site. An external load balancing device such as Cisco's Local Director can be integrated with ColdFusion to provide comprehensive load balancing and failover support for the servers in you local Web site. For more information about how to configure these devices in ColdFusion see the Server Probe and Load Balancing Hardware Integration help topics.

Anatomy of the Server Configuration page

To familiarize yourself with the information presented on this page, see the following annotated image:
 

 

Description

  1. Server Name. Shows a list of the Web servers that ColdFusion found configured on your local system.

  2. State. Shows the current operating status of each configured web server on your system. Available is shown whenever the server is running and receiving user requests. Busy is shown whenever the server is suspended from processing user requests. Restricted is shown whenever (a) a probe fails and restricts a Web server from receiving user requests or (b) whenever you restrict Cisco Local Director from processing requests to a Web server.

  3. Probes. Shows the current operating status of one or more configured probe(s) per server. Red is shown when a probe fails. Yellow is shown when a probe is suspended. Green is shown when a probe is available. Grey is shown when the probe is disabled (or possibly when the probe is not properly configured to monitor the server).

  4. Load %. This field displays the percentage of traffic hitting the web server. Note that if you have a Cisco Local Director box configured, the load is monitored and reported to the Cisco Local Director device. If you do not have a Cisco Local Director box configured, the ColdFusion Server application load is reported here but it has no effect on the Web site traffic. In order for a probe to monitor and report the web server load, the Enabled setting must be checked and the probe must be properly configured to monitor the server.

  5. Threshold %. An user-defined field for specifying a threshold value. To specify a value,  click the field and type a value.

  6. Enabled. If you have a Cisco Local Director box configured, use this control to enable or restrict traffic to the server.  If you do not have a Cisco Director box configured, use this setting to instruct the probe to monitor the ColdFusion Server application load; otherwise, Disabled is shown in the Load% field.

  7. Load Balancing Device. Identifies whether a Cisco Local Director box is configured per server. None is shown whenever this device is not configured. The DNS name of the device is shown whenever this device is configured. The name of the device is shown grayed-out whenever the Enabled check box for that device is cleared (disabled)..

  8. Restrict. When this control is enabled (checked), the load balancing device will restrict all traffic to corresponding web server. This option is by default disabled (clear).

 

 

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