This three-day (3) hands-on class written by Fig Leaf Software teaches the fundamentals of installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining Adobe ColdFusion servers. You will install and configure a cluster as well as deploy and load test CF applications.

Dates: February 1-3, 201
Location: Washington, DC and Online

Course Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of web network architecture and concepts
• Experience using Microsoft Windows
• Basic understanding of ColdFusion syntax (optional)

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Install and Configure multiple load-balanced ColdFusion instances for robustness
• Modify your JVM.config file to take full advantage of your hardware
• Troubleshoot memory leaks and stability problems
• Secure your server
• Tune your server settings
• Synchronize settings between servers
• Load test your applications to identify concurrency problems and bottlenecks
• Implement various caching strategies to improve performance

Course Outline

Section I: Installing ColdFusion 11

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

Unit 2: Installing ColdFusion 11

• What is ColdFusion? Understanding the underlying architecture
• Installation Components
• 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
• Troubleshooting installation problems
• Command-line startup
• TCP/IP Issues
• Using Netstat
• Software firewalls

Unit 3: Configuring ColdFusion for the Enterprise

• Clustering Options
• Solutions for Failover and Content Replication
• Implementing and Managing a Cluster with Multiserver edition
• Restricting service access to the OS
• Enabling custom JVM.config files
• Enabling sandbox security
• Separating application and web servers
• CF Distributed Mode
• Using a reverse proxy

Unit 4: 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
• Configuring Server Sandboxes for hosted environments

SECTION II: Adobe ColdFusion Server Configuration

Unit 5: 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
• SOLR - configuring, clustering, and managing
• Alternative full-text search solutions

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

• Creating and Restoring CAR Files
• Compiling and Deploying an EAR/WAR file
• Deploying New Instances

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

• Load testing techniques
• Reviewing debug output
• Reviewing Log files
• Using the ColdFusion (Multi) Server Monitor
• Overhead considerations
• Executing Reports
• Reading reports
• Configuring Alerts
• Tools for heap dumps and analysis

Unit 9: Resolving Bottlenecks in Code

• Threading
• Database Caching
• Caching Page Results