Specifications

Managing AFP Service
This section describes typical day-to-day tasks you perform after you set up AFP
service on your server. Initial setup information appears in “Setting Up AFP Service”
on page 70.
Checking AFP Service Status
Use Server Admin to check the status of AFP service.
To view AFP service status:
1 Open Server Admin and connect to the server.
2 Click the triangle at the left of the server.
The list of services appears.
3 From the expanded Servers list, select AFP.
4 To see information such as whether the service is running, when it started, its
throughput, the number of connections, and whether guest access is enabled, click
Overview.
5 To review access and error logs, click Logs.
To choose which log to view, use the View pop-up menu.
6 To see graphs of connected users or throughput, click Graphs.
Use the pop-up menus to choose which graph to view and to choose the duration of
time to graph data for.
7 To see a list of connected users, click Connections.
The list includes user name, connection status, user IP address or domain name,
duration of connection, and the time since the last data transfer (idle time).
From the command line:
You can also check the status of the AFP service process by using the ps or top
commands in Terminal, or by looking at the log les in /Library/Logs/AppleFileService/
using the cat or tail command.
To view AFP service status: m
$ sudo serveradmin status afp
To see complete AFP status: m
$ sudo serveradmin fullstatus afp
For more information about command-line parameters for AFP, see “AFP
Parameters” on page 143. For information about serveradmin, see its man page.
For the basics of command-line tool usage, see Introduction to Command-Line
Administration.
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