MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION, ColdFusion Server 5 User manual

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Contents
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiv
Developer Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
About ColdFusion Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Printed and online documentation set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Viewing online documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Getting Answers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Contacting Macromedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Part I Data Sources and Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1 Advanced Data Source Management . . . . . . 3
About ColdFusion database drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About OLE DB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About native drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using ColdFusion to Create a Data Source (UNIX only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using Connection String Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
About the connection string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Changes to the ColdFusion Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Changes to CFML tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connecting to DB2 Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring DB2 options (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring DB2 options (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring system and services files (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing and Configuring DB2 Client Enabler (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Data source and start script settings for DB2 (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
DB2 binding and privileges for ODBC (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Executing a DB2 stored procedure (Windows, UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Connecting to dBASE/FoxPro Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Configuring dBASE/FoxPro options (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Configuring dBASE/FoxPro Driver options (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting to Excel Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ODBC: Microsoft Excel Driver options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ODBC: MERANT Excel Workbook Driver options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting to Informix Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Configuring Informix using ODBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Configuring Informix using the native driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting to Informix data sources (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connecting to Informix through ODBC/CLI (Windows, UNIX) . . . . . . . . . 29
Connecting to Sybase Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
ODBC: MERANT Sybase ASE Driver options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Native: Sybase 11 Driver options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Tips for connecting to Sybase System 11 (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting to Text Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
ODBC: Microsoft Text Driver options (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
ODBC: MERANT Text Driver options (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Connecting to Visual FoxPro Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 2 Administrator Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Accessing the Administrator Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Features on the Tools Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Logs and Statistics tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
System Monitoring tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Archive and Deploy tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Part II ColdFusion Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 3 ColdFusion Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Why Is ColdFusion Security Important?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Types of ColdFusion Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Choosing a Level of ColdFusion Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Developing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Deploying applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Securing the ColdFusion Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
To Learn More About Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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Chapter 4 Configuring Basic Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
About Basic Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Installation defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Configuring Remote Development Security (RDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Securing data sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ColdFusion Remote Development Services (RDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Basic security limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Securing ColdFusion file resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Securing ColdFusion data sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Using a Password to Restrict Access to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ColdFusion Studio Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Removing password-based access control: Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Configuring Basic Runtime Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 5 Configuring Advanced Security . . . . . . . . . 79
What is Advanced Security? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Advanced Security Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
User directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Resource types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Security contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Advanced Security Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Securing applications with User security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Securing resources with RDS security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Securing applications with a security sandbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Securing the ColdFusion Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Creating an Advanced Security Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Implementation summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Setting Up a Security Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Caching Advanced Security Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Defining User Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Defining a Security Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Specifying Resources to Protect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Implementing ColdFusion RDS Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Implementing User Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Implementing Server Sandbox Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Securing the ColdFusion Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Viewing a Map of your Security Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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An Example of ColdFusion Studio Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Enabling Advanced Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Specifying a User Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Defining a security context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Specifying resources to protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Adding policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Granting access privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Assigning users/groups to policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Enable ColdFusion Studio Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Advanced Security Single Sign-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Undocumented Tags and Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Administrative Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Administrative Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Part III Advanced Verity Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 6 Configuring Verity K2 Server . . . . . . . . . . 115
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Verity operates in two modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Quick start to K2 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
About K2 Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Installation details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Two Verity modes now supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
How ColdFusion determines which mode to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Collections created with ColdFusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Starting K2 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Windows batch file example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Linux and UNIX scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Stopping K2 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Stopping K2 when run as a service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Stopping K2 when run as an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Stopping K2 Server on Linux/UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Editing the k2server.ini File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Edit the vdkHome parameter of k2server.ini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Edit the Coll-n section of k2server.ini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
k2server.ini file listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
k2server.ini Parameter Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Server section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Search thread keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Collection sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using the rck2 Utility to Search K2 Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
rck2 syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
rck2 command options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Generic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Usage error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Runtime error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Data error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Query error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Security error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Remote Connection error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
File Handling error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Dispatch error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
TCP/IP error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Chapter 7 Indexing XML Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Indexing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Implementation summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Style Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Configuring style files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Configuring the style.xml file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
style.xml command syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
style.ufl file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
style.dft file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Indexing XML Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Indexing using mkvdk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Searching using rcvdk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 8 Verity Spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Supports Web standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Restart capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
State maintenance through a persistent store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Verity Spider Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The Verity Spider command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Using a command file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Command-line option reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Core Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Processing Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Networking Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Paths and URLs Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Content Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Locale Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
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Logging Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Maintenance Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Setting MIME Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Syntax restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
MIME types and Web crawling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
MIME types and file system indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Indexing unknown MIME types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Known MIME types for file system indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Chapter 9 Managing Verity Collections with the
mkvdk Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Overview of the Verity mkvdk Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
mkvdk syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Getting Started with the Verity mkvdk Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Steps for building a collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Collection setup options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
General processing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Date format options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Messaging options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Message types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Document processing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Bulk Submit Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Using bulk insert and delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Collection Maintenance Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Examples: Maintaining collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Deleting a Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Optimization Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
About squeezing deleted documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
About optimized Verity databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Performance tuning options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Chapter 10 Verity Troubleshooting Utilities . . . . . . . 199
Overview of Verity Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Note on collection types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Using the Verity rcvdk Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Starting rcvdk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Attaching to a Collection Using rcvdk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Basic searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Viewing Results of the rcvdk Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Displaying more fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
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Using the Verity didump Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Viewing the word list with didump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Viewing the zone list with didump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Viewing the zone attribute list with didump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Using the Verity browse Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Using menu options with the browse utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Displaying fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Using the Verity merge Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Merging collections using the merge utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Splitting collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Verity VDK Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Generic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Usage error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Runtime error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Data error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Query error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Licensing error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Security error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Remote connection error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Filtering error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Dispatch error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Part IV ColdFusion High-Availabilty . . . . . . . . 219
Chapter 11 Scalability and Availability Overview . . . 221
What is Scalability? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Load management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Issues Affecting Successful Scalability Implementations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Designing and coding scalable applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Avoiding common bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
DNS effects on Web site performance and availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Load testing your Web applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
What is Web Site Availability? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Availability and reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Common failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
A Web site availability scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Failover considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Techniques for Creating Scalable and Highly Available Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
What is clustering? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Hardware-based clustering solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Software-based clustering solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Combining hardware and software clustering solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
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Chapter 12 Configuring ColdFusion Clusters . . . . . . 245
Introduction to ClusterCATS Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
ClusterCATS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
ClusterCATS Explorer (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
ClusterCATS Web Explorer (UNIX only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
ClusterCATS Server Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
btadmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Creating Clusters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Creating clusters in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Creating clusters in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Removing Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Adding Cluster Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Adding cluster members in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Adding cluster members in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Removing Cluster Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Removing cluster members in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Removing cluster members in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Server Load Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Configuring load thresholds in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Configuring load thresholds on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Session-Aware Load Balancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Enabling session-aware load balancing on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Enabling session-aware load balancing on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Configuring ColdFusion probes in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Configuring ColdFusion probes in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Load-Balancing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Using Cisco LocalDirector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Using third-party load-balancing devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Administrator Alarm Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Configuring administrator alarm notifications on Windows . . . . . . . . . . 297
Configuring administrator alarm notifications on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Administrator E-mail Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Configuring administration e-mail options on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Configuring administration e-mail options on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Administrating Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Configuring authentication on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Configuring authentication on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
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Chapter 13 Maintaining Cluster Members . . . . . . . . . 307
Understanding ClusterCATS Server Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Changing Active/Passive Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Changing active/passive settings in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Changing active/passive settings in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Changing Restricted/Unrestricted Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Restricting/unrestricting servers in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Restricting/unrestricting servers in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Using Maintenance Mode (Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Updating an Existing Cluster Member (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Resetting Cluster Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Resetting cluster members on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Resetting cluster members on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Chapter 14 ClusterCATS Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Using btadmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Using btadmin on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Using btadmin on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Using bt-start-server and bt-stop-server (UNIX only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Using btcfgchk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Sample output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
btcfgchk DNS errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Using hostinfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Sample output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Using sniff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Sample output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Chapter 15 Optimizing ClusterCATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
ClusterCATS Dynamic IP Addressing (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Understanding static and dynamic IP address configurations . . . . . . . . 334
Benefits of ClusterCATS dynamic IP addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Setting up maintenance IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Enabling ClusterCATS dynamic IP addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Using Server Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Static versus ClusterCATS dynamic IP addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Windows domain controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
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Configuring Load-Balancing Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Overview of metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Load types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Output variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Troubleshooting the load-balancing metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
About This Book
Advanced ColdFusion Administration is intended for anyone who needs to configure
databases for the ColdFusion server.
Contents
• Intended Audience................................................................................................... xiv
• New Features ............................................................................................................ xiv
• Developer Resources................................................................................................. xv
• About ColdFusion Documentation ........................................................................ xvi
• Getting Answers ......................................................................................................xvii
• Contacting Macromedia........................................................................................xviii
xiv About This Book
Intended Audience
Advanced ColdFusion Administration is intended for anyone who needs to perform
ColdFusion server management tasks, such as configuring advanced security or
managing clustered servers.
New Features
The following table lists the new features in ColdFusion 5:
Benefit Feature Description
Breakthrough
productivity
User-defined functions Create reusable functions to
accelerate development.
Query of queries
Easily integrate data from
heterogeneous sources by
merging and querying data in
memory using standard SQL.
Server analysis and
troublshooting
Quickly detect and diagnose
server errors with built-in server
reporting and the new Log File
Analyzer.
Powerful
business
intelligence
capabilities
Charting engine
Create professional-quality charts
and graphs from queried data
without leaving the ColdFusion
environment.
Enhanced Verity K2 full-text
search
Index and search up to 250,000
documents and enjoy greater
performance.
Reporting interface for
Crystal Reports 8.0
Create professional-quality
tabular reports from queried data
and applications.
Enhanced
performance
Core engine tuning
Take advantage of dramatically
improved server performance and
reduced memory usage to deliver
faster, more scalable applications.
Incremental page delivery
Improve response time by
delivering page output to users as
it is built.
Wire protocol database
drivers
Deliver high-performance ODBC
connectivity using new drivers.
Developer Resources xv
Developer Resources
Macromedia Corporation is committed to setting the standard for customer support
in developer education, technical support, and professional services. The Web site is
designed to give you quick access to the entire range of online resources, as the
following table describes.
Easy
managment
Application deployment
services
Effortlessly and reliably deploy,
archive, or restore entire
applications using ColdFusion
archive files.
Enhanced application
monitoring
Keep track of server performance
and availability with customizable
alerts and recovery.
SNMP support
Monitor ColdFusion applications
from enterprise management
systems.
Expanded
integration
Expanded Linux support
Deploy on additional Linux
distributions, including SuSE and
Cobalt.
Enhanced hardware load
balancer integration
Apply optimized, agent-based
support for hardware load
balancers, including new support
for the Cisco CSS 11000.
Enhanced COM support
Experience easier integration with
COM components.
Benefit Feature Description
Resource Description URL
Macromedia Web site General information about Macromedia
products and services
www.macromedia.com/
Information on
ColdFusion
Detailed product information on
ColdFusion and related topics
www.coldfusion.com/products/
coldfusion/
Technical Support Professional support programs that
Macromedia offers
www.coldfusion.com/support/
ColdFusion Support
Forum
Access to experienced ColdFusion
developers through participation in the
Online Forums, where you can post
messages and read replies on many
subjects relating to ColdFusion
http://forums.allaire.com/coldfusion/
xvi About This Book
About ColdFusion Documentation
ColdFusion documentation is designed to provide support for ColdFusion
developers and ColdFusion Server administrators. The print and online versions are
organized to allow you to quickly locate the information that you need. The
ColdFusion online documentation is provided in HTML and Adobe Acrobat formats.
Printed and online documentation set
The ColdFusion documentation set consists of the following titles.
Installation Support Support for installation-related issues
for all Macromedia products
www.coldfusion.com/support/
installation/
Professional Education Information about classes, on-site
training, and online courses offered by
Macromedia
www.coldfusion.com/developer/
training.cfm
Developer Community All the resources that you need to stay
on the cutting edge of ColdFusion
development, including online
discussion groups, Knowledge Base,
technical papers, and more
www.coldfusion.com/developer/
ColdFusion Dev Center Development tips, articles,
documentation, and white papers
www.coldfusion.com/developer/
referencedesk/
Macromedia Alliance Connection with the growing network of
solution providers, application
developers, resellers, and hosting
services creating solutions with
ColdFusion
www.coldfusion.com/partners/
Resource Description URL
Book Description
Installing and
Configuring
ColdFusion Server
Describes system installation and basic configuration for
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Solaris, and Linux
Advanced
ColdFusion
Administration
Describes how to connect your data sources to the ColdFusion
Server, configure security for your applications, and how to use
ClusterCATS to manage scalability, clustering, and
load-balancing for your site
Developing
ColdFusion
Applications
Describes on how to ColdFusion Server to develop your dynamic
Web applications, including retrieving and updating your data,
using structures, and forms
Getting Answers xvii
Viewing online documentation
All ColdFusion documentation is available online in HTML and Adobe Acrobat PDF
formats. To view the HTML documentation, open the following URL on the Web
server running ColdFusion: http://localhost/cfdocs/dochome.htm.
ColdFusion documentation in Acrobat format is available on the ColdFusion
product CD-ROM and for download from the ColdFusion web site: http://
www.coldfusion.com.
ColdFusion Studio documentation
ColdFusion Studio contains a wide range of online assistance, including a complete
collection of ColdFusion documentation. To view ColdFusion online documentation
from within ColdFusion Studio, click the Help resource tab. You will see an
expandable list of documents about ColdFusion Server and ColdFusion Studio, as
well as other information that relates to Web programming:
ColdFusion Studio online documentation is searchable and you can bookmark
individual pages. For more information about using the ColdFusion Studio interface,
see the ColdFusion Studio documentation set.
Getting Answers
One of the best ways to solve particular programming problems is to tap into the vast
expertise of the ColdFusion developer communities on the ColdFusion Forums.
Other developers on the forum can help you figure out how to do just about anything
with ColdFusion. The search facility can also help you search messages from the
previous 12 months, allowing you to learn how others have solved a problem that
you might be facing. The Forums is a great resource for learning ColdFusion, but it is
also a great place to see the ColdFusion developer community in action.
CFML Reference The online-only ColdFusion Reference provides descriptions,
syntax, usage, and code examples for all ColdFusion tags,
functions, and variables
CFML Quick
Reference
A brief guide that shows the syntax of ColdFusion tags,
functions, and variables
Book Description
xviii About This Book
Contacting Macromedia
Corporate
headquarters
Macromedia, Inc.
600 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel: 415.252.2000
Fax: 415.626.0554
Web: www.macromedia.com
Technical
support
Macromedia offers a range of telephone and Web-based
support options. Go to http://www.coldfusion.com/
support/ for a complete description of technical support
services.
You can make postings to the ColdFusion Support Forum
(http://forums.coldfusion.com/DevConf/index.cfm) at
any time.
Sales
Toll Free: 888.939.2545
Tel: 617.219.2100
Fax: 617.219.2101
E-mail: sales@macromedia.com
Web: http://commerce.coldfusion.com/purchase/
index.cfm
Part I
Data Sources and Tools
This part describes data source management and introduces the
ColdFusion Administrator tools. The following chapters are included:
Advanced Data Source Management ..................................................3
Administrator Tools.............................................................................39
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