FRAC plugin - enterprise req ?

[Tom Chiverton]

I was looking at installing http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/plugins/frec.cfm to look at our JDBC pool stats. and it says " FREC works with ColdFusion Standard", but the install instructions (http://docs.intergral.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26214983)  seem to indicate this requires Enterprise edition ?

On standard, does FRAC only allow copying the CF server logs then ? This could be made clearer if so.

Tom

[David Stockton]

Hello Tom,

Thanks for the notes.

I couldn't find any reference to the fact that FREC requires Enterprise edition in our docs or on the links that you sent - could you help clarify where it says that please?

FREC works on both CF Standard and CF Enterprise for log file capturing & management (eg the CF & JRun/Tomcat error logs).

FREC can capture partial metrics from CF Standard. Unfortunately we don't have a definitive list of which metrics are (/are not) captured for me to share with you at this point.

FREC can capture all metrics from CF Enterprise.

I will work on providing a breakdown of which metrics are(/not) supported on CF Standard. However, this will take some time so I would recommend simply trying the FREC plugin on your system and seeing if it provides the information you require. The additional overhead is very minimal (it only polls overview metrics every 5s by default) and so it's advised to install on all CF installations.

Best regards,

David Stockton

Fusion Team

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[Tom Chiverton]

A definitive list up front in the docs would be good.

That URL says "It is important that you enable Monitoring and Profiling in ColdFusion, to do this ..." This option isn't available in Standard.

Tom

[Charlie Arehart]

What you’ll find (and I gather David will document) is that there are some aspects of what FREC grabs which they get from the Admin API, and some of specifically which is from the servermonitoring.cfc, which as you note will only work in Enterprise. There are many things that WOULD be reported by that that they are getting anyway in CF Standard, using the various undocumented CF java objects.

But even on Enterprise, some things will only be captured by FREC (just as in the CF Server monitor itself) if the server monitor’s “start monitoring”, “start profiling”, or “start memory tracking” buttons are enabled. So when they say of some things that you need that on, it just means that thing won’t be reported (or will report as 0 or an empty string) if they are not.

Not even adobe does a great job of clarifying what parts of the monitor don’t report if one or more of these options is not enabled. I can understand the challenge for Intergral in clarifying it as well. It’s great to hear that David is considering it.  I’m sure many would benefit, and then also the FREC docs (and indeed FusionAnalytics, which also leverages those FREC logs) would be improved.

David, to save you the trouble of doing it all, you may want to consider creating a wiki, google doc, or some other group-updatable resource, where I and others could help you in identifying what in the FREC logs is in Standard vs Enterprise, or what is only enabled depending on those “start” buttons.

 

/charlie

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