Launch Server Manager

Before starting Server Manager, ensure that you have AIR installed because Server Manager requires the AIR platform to run.

You can download AIR from:

http://get.adobe.com/air/

To launch the Server Manager for the first time:

  1. Log into ColdFusion Administrator.

  2. Click Server Monitor and then click Launch Server Manager.

  3. Save and run the Server Manager AIR file to launch Server Manager on your computer.

Note: When you download ServerManager.air application that is running on IIS 7 web server or a J2EE server, set the mimetype in the respective webserver or J2EE server. If you cannot configure the AIR mimetype, then you can either download the ServerManager.zip file, change the file extension to .air, and run it, or run the AIR file located in the <CF_HOME>/CFIDE/ServerManager directory.

For IIS7, you may get the following error when you try to download severmanager.air. 

"The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map."

To avoid this, configure the MIME type by adding '.air' as File name Extension and 'application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip' as MIME type.

After the installation:

  1. Run the Server Manager by calling ColdFusion Server Manager executable from the installation directory.

  2. Set the master password when you log into the Server Manager for the first time. You can also reset this password.

    Note: When you reset the password, the passwords of all the registered servers are nullified. You must provide passwords to all registered servers to connect to.