ColdFusion 2021 cfsetup import/export issues

I have two suggestions. (And to clarify, I did that export and import no problem, against a CF2021 deployed from the zip, and updated to update 1.)

First, since your problem is on the import, what do you see if you edit the file, c:\METRIC.json, once you create it? Since you're on Windows, while you're on the command line you can just do:

notepad c:\METRIC.json

Do you see the json in the file? And in it, do you see the cfstatHost that the error message refers to? I can confirm I do not. Here is what mine looked like:

{"METRIC":{"cfconnectorport":"8500","simpleLoad.sampleSize":"50","simpleLoad.sampleRate":"5","cfstat":"true","cfmetrics.pullfreq":"60.0","reqTimingWindow":"10","cfmetrics":"false","cfperfmon":"false","simpleLoad.maxRequests":"500","cfstatport":"7993","simpleLoad.constLoad":"200","cfperfmon.pullfreq":"1.0"}}

I am suspecting that you may find something interesting based on the above. (I can confirm that even if I make the file empty, I do not get the error you got, but instead just get "ExitStatus: Fail" in response to the import.)

But assuming that doesn't help, I'm curious what you see if you just do this:

cfsetup show metric c:\ColdFusion\cfusion

I see this:

Metric Settings:
cfconnectorport : 8500
cfmetrics : false
cfmetrics.pullfreq : 60
cfperfmon : false
cfstat : true

Do you see more? Less? I'm just trying to help you find where the problem may be, if your results of these things are quite different from mine.

Finally, yes, that "show" output is only 5 metrics, while the json file held 12. I have just filed a bug report for that, CF-4212175.

As for your issue, bcserverteam, let's hear what you may find. I would not think it's time to declare this a bug, since the same thing doesn't happen for me with the same setup. It would seem there's something distinctive about your situation, but we may be able to get to the bottom of it here.