Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Using the FileMakerServer documentation
- Chapter 1 Welcome to FileMakerServer 5
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMakerServer in Windows
- What you need
- Installing FileMakerServer
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Starting FileMakerServer (WindowsNT)
- Starting FileMakerServer (Windows2000)
- Stopping FileMakerServer (WindowsNT)
- Stopping FileMakerServer (Windows2000)
- Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer running Windows
- Enabling the Server Administration plug-in using FileMakerPro (Windows)
- Uninstalling FileMakerServer (Windows)
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMakerServer in the MacOS
- What you need
- Installing FileMakerServer
- Adjusting memory (MacOS)
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Starting FileMakerServer (MacOS)
- Quitting FileMakerServer (Mac OS)
- Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer running the MacOS
- Enabling the Server Administration plug-in using FileMaker Pro (MacOS)
- Chapter 4 Configuring FileMakerServer
- Using the configuration assistants (Windows)
- Opening the Properties dialog box (Windows)
- Opening the Preferences dialog box (MacOS)
- Setting the number of guests
- Allowing disconnection of idle guests
- Setting the maximum number of files
- Changing the amount of memory used by FileMakerServer
- Setting how often the cache is flushed
- Allowing single user files to be hosted
- Opening runtime solutions automatically (Windows)
- Opening runtime solutions automatically (Mac OS)
- Enabling remote administration
- Specifying a custom host name
- Maximizing performance (MacOS)
- Choosing network protocols
- Setting the preferred IP address
- Recording usage statistics and settingsizelimits
- Setting a size limit for the application log (WindowsNT)
- Setting a size limit for the application log (Windows2000)
- Setting a size limit for the Server Event Log (MacOS)
- Protecting files with a password
- How FileMakerServer behaves during system sleep
- Chapter 5 Administering FileMakerServer
- Administering FileMakerServer remotely
- Opening the Remote Administration window
- Listing hosted files and current guests remotely
- Viewing usage statistics for FileMakerServer remotely
- Hosting FileMakerPro5 files remotely
- Closing hosted files remotely
- Disconnecting guests remotely
- Viewing detailed information about hosted files and guests remotely
- Sending messages to guests remotely
- Sending messages to all guests remotely
- Administering FileMakerServer locally
- Monitoring performance locally (WindowsNT)
- Monitoring performance locally (Windows2000)
- Opening the local administration window (MacOS)
- Listing hosted files and guests locally (MacOS)
- Viewing usage statistics locally (MacOS)
- Hosting FileMaker Pro 5 files locally (MacOS)
- Closing hosted files locally (MacOS)
- Disconnecting guests locally (MacOS)
- Sending messages to guests locally (MacOS)
- Using reported events to track activities
- Recalculating the Today function inhosteddatabases
- Administering FileMakerServer remotely
- Chapter 6 Scheduling administrative tasks with FileMakerServer
- Scheduling tasks to run automatically (Windows)
- Scheduling tasks to run automatically (MacOS)
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules list (Windows)
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules window (MacOS)
- Running scheduled tasks manually
- Changing scheduled tasks
- Duplicating scheduled tasks
- Deleting scheduled tasks
- Enabling and disabling scheduled tasks
- Using the command line to automate tasks (Windows)
- Using an AppleScript to automate tasks (MacOS)
- Making sure you don’t run out of disk space
- Appendix A Technical specifications and optimization
- Appendix B Performance and usage tips
- Appendix C Event log messages and troubleshooting
- Appendix D About the TechInfo database
Appendix A
Technical specifications and optimization
Limits for files and usage Hardware and network considerations
Keep the following points in mind when you’re setting up
FileMaker Server on your computer and configuring the network
where it will run.
Use a dedicated computer
Use FileMaker Server by itself on a computer on which no other
applications are normally running and that isn’t a user’s primary
workstation. When FileMaker Server is hosting many guests or a
large number of database files, it uses a high level of processor, disk,
and network capacity. Other processor-intensive applications or
heavy network traffic on the same computer causes
FileMaker Server to run more slowly, and the performance of
FileMaker Pro on guest computers to degrade.
Use as fast a computer as possible
The faster the computer, the better the performance of
FileMaker Server.
1 Windows: FileMaker Server requires at minimum a Pentium
processor.
1 Mac OS: FileMaker Server requires at minimum a PowerPC
processor. FileMaker Server is optimized for the PowerPC G3
processor in a Power Macintosh G3 computer.
Item Limitation
Number of files hosted
by FileMaker Server
Maximum of 125 files depending on the Maximum
number of files to host
setting (other network
applications may limit this number).
Number of files open at
the same time
Maximum of 50 per FileMaker Pro 5 guests.
Number of network users Maximum number of guests is 250. (AppleTalk
support is limited to 124 simultaneous guests.) You
can restrict the number of simultaneously connected
guests with the Allow up to
n
simultaneously
connected guests
setting. Specifying a realistic
number of guests fewer than 250 can optimize
performance.
File size Maximum of 2 GB (gigabytes) per file. The
combined size of all open files is limited only by
disk space.
Length of host name Maximum of 31 characters.
Length of
FileMaker Server
password
Maximum of 31 characters.
Length of filename Windows: Maximum of 255 characters.
Note To open the files in FileMaker Server, the first
31 characters of the filename must be unique.
Mac OS: Maximum of 31 characters.