Updates page

Verify if there are any product updates using the ColdFusion Administrator (Server Update > Update). The updates can include hot fixes and security hot fixes for ColdFusion Zeus.

The Updates page has the following options:

• Available updates: Click Check for Updates to see if any updates are available for installation.

  For a multi-server setup, when you apply the updates from the main instance, you have option to select all local instances to which you may opt to apply hot fix. By default, update applies only to the main instance.

  If you apply the updates from a newly created local instance, the hot fix is applied only to that specific instance. You have to apply the hot fix to other instances from the main instance or individually from each instance. Before the update, the main ColdFusion instance automatically stops. But you have to manually stop all other instances (for which you want to apply the updates).

  You can either

  • Download: Downloads and places the file in <cf_home>/hf-updates/ for later installation. For details, see Download hot fix for later installation.

  • Download and install: Downloads the hot fix and performs a silent installation.

    Note: This option does not apply to J2EE installations. Also, in the case of multi-server installations, you have to select the server on which you want to install the hot fix.

• Installed updates: Lists all updates to ColdFusion Zeus that you have installed. For multi-server setup, it shows the list of updates to the instance to which you have logged in from the ColdFusion Administrator.

  Use the option Uninstall to remove the installed hot fix (if needed).

• Settings: Provides options to specify update preferences such as update notifications or if to automatically check for updates.

  If you have set up a local update site, you can also specify URL of that site to get updates.

  To do this, populate the updates.xml (see the following sample) and then update the URL in the Administrator (Server Update > Updates > Settings > Update Site > Site URL). For example, http://IP Address:Port/updates/updates.xml.

  The following is a sample updates.xml:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
    <rss version="2.0"> 
       <channel> 
        <title>ColdFusion_Zeus_Update</title> 
  <description>Upload_description</description>       <item> 
           <title>Hot_Fix_Name</title> 
           <description>Hotfix_Description</description>     
          <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2011 11:09:11 -0400</pubDate> 
          <cfhf_id>HotFix_ID</cfhf_id> 
           <cfhf_type>Cumulative</cfhf_category>         
           <cfhf_updatelevel>Integer indicating Hotfix Chronology</cfhf_updatelevel> 
           <cfhf_filename>Hotfix_installer_file_name</cfhf_filename> 
           <cfhf_technotelink>Link_to_Technote</cfhf_technotelink> 
           <cfhf_servers> 
               <cfhf_server version="10,0,0"> 
                   
  <cfhf_downloadlink>http://localhost:8500/updates/install060811.jar</cfhf_downloadlink>                 <cfhf_checksum>20f33dd56597b68c3634be08116bc84a</cfhf_checksum> 
                   <cfhf_filename>hotfix_1.jar</cfhf_filename> 
                   <cfhf_installinput> 
                      <OPTIONAL_![CDATA[ HTML for input fields ]]> 
                  </cfhf_installinput> 
               </cfhf_server> 
           </cfhf_servers> 
               
          </item> 
     </channel> 
   </rsst>

  After you specify the settings, click Submit changes for the preferences to take effect.

  If you