Administrator’s Guide (Mac OS)

2-6 FileMaker Pro Server Administrator’s Guide
2. Choose from the Usage pop-up menu to set the category of information
FileMaker Pro Server displays for Current, Average, and Peak in the usage
area of the window.
FileMaker Pro Server updates the statistics in the usage area every 15
seconds or less but no more than once a second. Although this reduces the
overhead required to calculate the statistics, it means the statistics are
approximations of how FileMaker Pro Server is using resources.
3. Use the View by options to choose what information you see in the list.
Choose To see statistics on
Transactions Transactions per second
Network Network KB per second (or MB if network activity is greater than 10 MB
per second)
Disk Disk KB per second (or MB if disk activity is greater than 10 MB
per second)
Cache hits Cache hit % (should be a high number; if it isn’t, you might need to allocate
more memory to FileMaker Pro Server)
Cache swaps Cache swap % (should be a low number; if it isn’t, you might need to
allocate more memory to FileMaker Pro Server)
Databases Open databases (use this information to set the Maximum number of
files preference)
Guests Connected guests (use this information to set the Maximum number of
guests preference)
Click
And choose this from
the pop-up menu To see
View by Guest All Guests A list of FileMaker Pro guests accessing the
database files hosted by FileMaker Pro Server,
with time values in the Connected for and Idle
for columns
View by Guest <guest name> Detailed information on a single guest,
including the database files that guest has open
and time values in the Connected for and Idle
for columns
View by Database All Databases A list of the database files hosted by
FileMaker Pro Server, with the number of
guests connected to each database and the
folders containing the files
View by Database <folder name> A list of the database files in the selected folder,
including the number and names of the guests
connected to each database