Administrator’s Guide

Administering FileMaker Server 5-15
Tip Choose Log menu > Save As to save information displayed in the
Event Viewer as a tab-delimited text file (.TXT) and then import the
information into a FileMaker Pro database for further analysis.
Viewing activities in the Event Viewer (Windows 2000)
To view information about FileMaker Server activities:
1. Click the Start button > Settings > Control Panel.
2. Open the Administrative Tools folder.
3. Double-click the Event Viewer icon.
4. Click Application Log in the Console Tree.
5. Choose View menu > Filter.
6. For Source, choose FileMaker Server.
7. Click OK.
You see a list of FileMaker Server Events in the Details Pane of the
Event Viewer console.
8. Double-click an event to display details about it.
Tip Choose Action menu > Export List to save information displayed
in the Event Viewer as a tab-delimited text file (.TXT) and then
import the information into a FileMaker Pro database for further
analysis.
For more information about the error conditions reported in the
Event Log, see appendix C, “Event log messages and
troubleshooting.”
Keeping event data current (Windows)
You might want to configure the Event Viewer to overwrite event
information, because the default setting is to stop recording events
when the application log becomes full. If you have many databases
open with many users accessing them, and if you flush the cache
often, the log could fill up quickly and the information in the Event
Viewer could quickly become out of date.
To overwrite event information when the log is full:
1. Choose one of the following:
1 Windows NT: In the Event Viewer, choose Log menu > Log
Settings.
1 Windows 2000: In the Event Viewer, choose Action menu >
Properties.
2. For Event Log Wrapping, select Overwrite Events as Needed.
3. Click OK.
Tip You might want to increase the Maximum Log Size setting from
the default 512 KB to 4096 KB or more, depending on how much
FileMaker Server activity you anticipate on your server computer.
Viewing activities in the Server Event Log (Mac OS)
The Server Event Log file is created in the FileMaker Server 5
folder. You can use any application capable of opening plain text
files to view or print it. You can have the log file open when
FileMaker Server is running, but you won’t see recent updates in the
file until you close the log file and reopen it. For more information
about the error conditions reported in the Server Event Log, see
appendix C, “Event log messages and troubleshooting.”
A new log file is created each time you start FileMaker Server. The
log from the previous session is backed up in the FileMaker Server 5
folder and renamed Server Last Event Log. Therefore, you always
have the current log file and the previous one available for review.
To save a specific log file, use the Finder to rename it before it is
overwritten by FileMaker Server.
You can set a maximum size for the Event Log to prevent it from
taking up too much space on your disk. For more information, see
“Setting a size limit for the Server Event Log (Mac OS)” on
page 4-11.