Administrator’s Guide

5-4 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
The following statistics are listed in the Usage Statistics window:
By default, FileMaker Server updates the statistics in the Usage
Statistics window 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 Server is using resources. For information about where
usage statistics are stored and how to display them in a chart, see
“Recording usage statistics and setting size limits” on page 4-9.
Tip In Mac OS, you can also collect usage statistics information by
using Apple events. For more information about Apple events, see
the Apple Events Information folder in the AppleScript Examples
folder inside the FileMaker Server 5 folder.
Mac OS: To view usage statistics while working on the server
computer, see “Viewing usage statistics locally (Mac OS)” on
page 5-11.
Hosting FileMaker Pro 5 files remotely
Important FileMaker Server 5 supports only FileMaker Pro 5
databases. Therefore, any existing databases you have from a
previous version of FileMaker Pro must be converted to FileMaker
Pro 5 format before you can host them using FileMaker Server 5.
When FileMaker Server starts, it automatically opens or hosts all
multi-user files in the FileMaker Server 5 folder including those in
subfolders one level down. It also opens single user files, if you have
enabled the Allow FileMaker Server to host Single User files option in the
Files tab of the Properties (Windows) or Preferences (Mac OS) dialog
box. For more information, see “Allowing single user files to be
hosted” on page 4-5. Don’t use personal file sharing to share
FileMaker Pro files.
Note To open database files while administering remotely, you must
have the Server Administration plug-in for FileMaker Pro installed
on the remote computer. For Windows remote computers, see
“Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer
running Windows” on page 2-6. For Mac OS remote computers, see
“Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer
running the Mac OS” on page 3-5.
To open files remotely while FileMaker Server is running:
1. Click Open File in the Remote Administration window.
You see a dialog box with a list of FileMaker Pro 5 files available
for hosting.
Statistic Description
Transactions/
second
Number of guest requests handled per second.
Network
(Kbytes/sec)
Amount of data being moved across the network or to and
from disk. Data is measured in KB unless network activity is
greater than 10 MB per second. In that case, the value
displayed represents MB per second.
Guests Number of connected guests. Use this information to help
configure the Allow up to n simultaneously connected guests
option.
Files
Number of open databases. Use this information to
configure the Maximum number of files to host option.
Disk (Kbytes/sec) Amount of data being written to disk. Data is measured in
KB unless data written to disk is greater than 10 MB per
second. In that case, the value displayed represents MB per
second.
Cache Unsaved % Percentage of cache that is currently unsaved. This should be
a relatively low number, such as 0 or 5, so you won’t lose
data if you experience a system crash. If the number is
consistently high, consider increasing the frequency with
which the cache is flushed.
Cache Hit % Percentage of the times FileMaker Server retrieved data
from the cache (RAM) rather than the hard disk. Reading
data from RAM is much more efficient than rereading it
from the hard disk, so this value should be a high number,
like 90 or 95. If it isn’t, you might need to allocate more
memory to FileMaker Server database cache.