FusionReactor is a professional server monitor, designed for production environments and supporting a range of J2EE servers and Adobe servers (ColdFusion 6, 7, 8 and 9, LiveCycle and Flex Data Services). As a pro-active monitor, it increases server stability and performance by continuously examining applications, servers and databases to identify, highlight and address issues before they impact critical processes.
Once you have installed FusionReactor you will want to access the FusionReactor Administrator (FRAM).
There are two ways to do this:
- The simplest method is to use the desktop or Start Menu icons, which were created during installation.
- Alternatively you can call the FusionReactor Administrator (FRAM) directly from a web browser with a URL like this:
http://127.0.0.1:8087/fusionreactor/
 | NOTE If you are using FusionReactor with Adobe ColdFusion - we recommend that you install FusionReactor Extensions for ColdFusion (FREC) |
The first page you will see when you access FusionReactor Administration Manager (FRAM) will be a login page. Enter the password fpr the Administrator user, which you entered during installation, and click on the 'Login' button. Note that if you did not specify passwords for the Manager or Observer users, these accounts are disabled and you will be unable to login as these types of users.
Once you are logged in, you will notice that you have a 10 day trial to use FusionReactor. Please check the license guide for a detailed guide on how to acquire and activate your license.
Instance Manager
The Instance Manager is used to keep track of the FusionReactor instances you may have monitoring your servers. Once you have installed a FusionReactor instance into a server instance, you are able to add that instance to the Enterprise Dashboard where you have an overview page of different metrics (The enterprise dashboard is only available with enterprise licenses).
If you start FRAM from the installer, the Initial Server Scan wizard will pop up and the FusionReactor Administration Manager will attempt to scan for supported ColdFusion and J2EE servers. For a detailed guide on this process, please see Initial Server Scan. If you go through the shortcut or direct URL, the initial server scan wizard will not pop up and you will have to initiate the server scan yourself on the Instance Manager.
You are able to monitor any number of installed ColdFusion and J2EE servers. To install a FusionReactor Instance, click the 'Add Instance' button next to the desired server instance you want to monitor. Follow the Install FusionReactor Instance guide for more detailed information.
Logging
The logging functionality in FusionReactor is very powerful. Lots of the data shown in the metrics within FusionReactor instances is stored in-memory so it can be used to generate graphs and reports. If a server was to crash or be shutdown, this in-memory data is lost - however all of this data will have been captured to one of FusionReactor's extensive log files where you will be able to determine what went wrong.
On the Logging pages, you are able to set up log rotation to send the logs to a FusionAnalytics Data Collector, where you can have FusionAnalytics import the application log files into a SQL database. The resulting data is processed by the FusionAnalytics Server and visualized by the FusionAnalytics Desktop application. To be able to do this, you must add a FusionAnalytics target.
For a more detailed overview on FusionReactor's logging, please go the Overview of FusionReactor Logs guide.
FusionAnalytics Connector
The Analytics menu provides access to the current status between your instance of FusionReactor and FusionAnalytics. FusionAnalytics is a ColdFusion Application and server analysis tool, which integrates seamlessly with FusionReactor. FusionAnalytics is all about "Making IT Better" and giving you the information and data to help you make better business decisions, improve application performance and quality of your applications as well as measure exactly how your applications are performing on a continuous day to day basis.
The FusionAnalytics Connector Status page will show details such as the size of the archive, the source of the archive (which instance it came from), any exceptions and what target the archive has been set. You can also see all of the archive files (which include the log files) that are going to be transferred to FusionAnalytics. You are able to rotate to have FRAM generate new archives based on the log information gathered since the previous archives was generated.
The archived files are sorted by date, making finding archives easy. You can also delete archives, where you can either delete them individually or you can delete all of the stored archived in one go by clicking on 'Clear all Archives'
 | WARNING Make sure you are 100% sure before removing all archives as they will be deleted from your hard drive. |
For a more detailed overview, please go to the Connector Status page.