Enhancements to components in the ColdFusion Administrator involve:
Reporting — A new reporting feature lets you examine ColdFusion Server performance statistics by month, week, day, and hour; track ColdFusion Server configuration changes to identify how they affected the behavior of the ColdFusion Server; and identify all current configuration settings from one view. For details, see the Server Reports section of this help system.
Basic Security — ColdFusion now allows you to disable an extended list of attributes and tags. For details, see Set ColdFusion tag restrictions.
Advanced Security — For Windows and Solaris, an OEM version of Netegrity's SiteMinder 4.11 is included. The new SiteMinder has the single sign on capability, which applies to users who have purchased the full version of SiteMinder. This allows users to sign on once when the Web server intercepts the request, and ColdFusion does not ask them to authenticate again. You can set up an ODBC user directory to provide access for SiteMinder. For details on connecting to a user directory, see Connect user directories.
ColdFusion 5 also features three new buttons for flushing the authentication cache only, the authorization cache only, or both the authentication and authorization caches together. For details, see Configure Advanced Security.
Log file management — If in the past you relied on ColdFusion logs for information about server operations, errors, and related information, you know that these log files can be cumbersome, lengthy, and difficult to read. New logging functionality helps improve the value that logs have in maintaining ColdFusion Server. You can generate application-specific, scheduled task, and custom logs. You can target files for storing logged information, and you can limit logs by size or entries by age. The ColdFusion Administrator now also supports filtering for log views. For details, About the Log Files page.
Server Management — A new set of server management functions helps you improve the performance, reliability, and manageability of your ColdFusion server infrastructure. Features include:
Filters for analyzing and viewing log file information. For details, see Filtering log content.
Archival operations for archiving and restoring site information. For details, see Overview of Archiving and Deploying.
High availability controls for monitoring resources in your Web site. For details, see the System Monitoring Overview.
MIB – SNMP. Managed data is now accessible through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Information Base (MIB) for Advanced ColdFusion Application Management services. You can easily integrate this information with your third-party system management tools like HP Open View. For details, see the SNMP book of this help system.
Set ColdFusion tag restrictions
Connect user directories
Configure Advanced Security
About the Log Files page
Filtering log content
System Monitoring Overview