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CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION 9

Using the ColdFusion Server Monitor

Last updated 2/21/2012

• The threshold for either an unresponsive server or a slow server is exceeded

When you click Trigger Snapshot, the Server Monitor collects the information for the snapshot and saves it in a file

named snapshot_usrgen_timestamp.txt in the cf_root/logs/snapshots folder. When the Server Monitor creates a

snapshot, it saves the information in a file named snapshot_sysgen_timestamp.txt in the cf_root/logs/snapshots folder.

Specifying Server Monitor Settings

To specify the settings to use to generate reports, click Settings.

You can specify the following:

• How often to refresh Server Monitor reports

• How often to refresh Server Monitor graphs

• How often to calculate average response times

• Whether to show the entire template path

To specify what file paths to exclude and include in monitoring and whether to monitor the ColdFusion

Administrator, click Settings, and then click the Filter Settings tab.

To specify what file paths to exclude from profiling, click Settings, and then click the Profiling Filter tab.

By default, the Server Monitor collects information about all ColdFusion templates in the webroot directory and its

subdirectories and in any directories specified on the Mappings page of the ColdFusion Administrator. However, you

might not want to monitor all requests on the server. You specify a path to exclude so that the Server Monitor does not

collect information about files in that directory or in any of its subdirectories. This capability is especially useful in

restricting monitoring on production servers. Use the Include Paths option to monitor any subdirectories of an

excluded directory.

To specify an alias for a template path, click Settings, and then click the Aliasing tab.

ColdFusion Server Monitor API

Use the Server Monitor API to programmatically retrieve all the data that the Server Monitor collects. The

servermonitoring.cfc ColdFusion component contains methods that you call to perform Server Monitor tasks. For

example, use the getAverageResponseTime method to get the average response time for the server.

To view the methods, method arguments, and documentation for the Server Monitor API, use the CFC Explorer. To

do so, go to http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/adminapi/servermonitoring.cfc.

Use the Server Monitor API

1 Instantiate administrator.cfc:

adminObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator");

Note: You can instantiate administrator.cfc and call the login method in a single line of code, as the following

example shows:

createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator").login("admin");

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