Help with CF schedule task

I need to post this question back to the forum community, First of all thank you for all the sugesstions, it is much appreciated. But my schedule task did not run as it was expected. From the time I posted this question to today, my little app. has never been run through the scheduled task. I've been running it manually every morning.

I'm not sure what caused it, there is no error message on the CF admin application log and I have moved my little app. to a non https site.

With no error log I don't know what to fix or do. But a couple of questions I have and may need some help from this forum are:

1. My app. resides inside a password protected intranet app.

    So, my little app. that needs to run every early morning is a stand alone app., does not depend on any other app., but it is placed inside a bigger intranet app

    that is password protected.

    When I run this app. manually, I have to login to that app. first, then type in the url/apth into my little app. and press enter on my keyboard

    Is it possible that this login/password page is preventing the schedule task from running as scheduled????

    If so, how can I get around this?

2. On the schedule task GUI, there is a RUN and PAUSE icons. Do I have to do something with it? should I click on RUN in order to start a schedule task?

    Currently it looks like this (see image below). There is an exclamation sign on the RUN button (the 1st button on the left), does it mean something?

    In addition, the 2nd button from the left is the pause button and it is currently RED. Does it mean I have to click it? If I click this button turns green but I

    thought it should be left RED since it indicates that the shecdule task is currently not on paused mode. Please help!

And, this username/password attribute pair comes in handy particularly when your Schedule task URL is protected for some security reasons.

The biggest risk to a ColdFusion scheduled task, is Windows Integrated Security configured on an IIS web server.  When this is configured, ColdFusion URL's will usually work just fine when run by a human user logged into a windows domain on a windows os usually using a windows browser.

But ColdFusion is not a windows client and is not logged into a windows domain by default.  Thus it can never respond to the IIS Windows Integrated Security http requests.

The trick is to configure the ColdFusion files that are expected to be ran with a ColdFusion secheduled task to not be secured with Windows Integrated Security which can be configured for individual files and|or directories.

As previously stated, NOPE that username and password field have nothing to do with database accounts.

I'm not sure about using them for ColdFusion Sandbox security, I've never heard that, but I also have never used the Sandbox feature of ColdFusion.

But, they can also be used for web server security, IF the web site is configured to use BASIC security.  Which does not happen very often in my experience.

Nope!.. It denotes the users that you can configure as part of ColdFusion sandboxes, you can allow/deny certain access to these users through your ColdFusion administrator => Security => User Manager.

So, with respect to schedule tasks, the username/password denotes the ColdFusion user (under whom's account you want to perform the schedule task).

HTH