I am new with CommandBox and I am using it’s cfconfig module for exporting/importing and setting some CF settings to my Servers/Instances.
My questions are:
Is it possible to initialize ColdFusion Administrator page through CommandBox and log in after CF server is installed.
Is it possible to create ColdFusion Instances in CF Enterprise Manager > Instance Manager through CommandBox.
I have ColdFusion 2016 and 2018 servers installed on CentOS and OracleLinux 7 and I want to automatize CF installation, initialization, instance creation and instance settings.
So far I am finished with Installation and Instance Settings but I miss that first login to CF and instance creation without user interaction.
Is it possible to initialize ColdFusion Administrator page through CommandBox and log in after CF server is installed.
I’m not sure what you mean here. CFConfig will read and write configuration to disk, but it can’t log you into a running server.
Is it possible to create ColdFusion Instances in CF Enterprise Manager > Instance Manager through CommandBox.
No I don’t think so and this is one of the biggest drawbacks of the multi-instance stuff IMO. To be honest, I would throw away your current approach and move to actually using CommandBox for your servers. CommandBox IS the best way to fully automate as many servers instances as you like, and with our Service Manager module you can even create system.d services for each of them. One of my clients was about to go down the road of ColdFusion multi-instance installations but realized there was just too much manual stuff involved so they trashed the idea and now just use CommandBox powered servers which gives them a tighter CFConfig integration and everything about each server is all contained in the server.json so config is much more consolidated.
Thank you for clarifying those things. My company works multi-instance way for quite some time. I will check out the CommandBox automation and present that to upper levels if that’s something that will work for them.
Sure, and let me know if you have any questions. We have a lot of clients using COmmandBox as a more portable and automatable multi-instance solution. One of our clients has around 10 or more instances on a single VM, but all running Commandbox wrapped in windows services. The only thing you’re really missing is the little web page that shows you all your instances. You have a CLI or a Windows (or whatever OS) service list. We’re actually planning some improvements to managing many instance on one machine via a UI due to the popularity of this approach.