Administrator’s Guide

36 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
You can view detailed information about hosted files and the clients
that are currently connected to them. For each hosted database, you
see:
1 the name of the file
1 the number of clients connected to it
1 file status
From the list, you can select one or all clients in order to:
1 send messages to clients
1 disconnect clients
Mac OS: You can sort information in columns by clicking the
column heading that includes a triangle in the heading.
Listing current clients
You can list FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Developer clients
connected to the hosted database files by selecting Console Root
>
Clients (Windows) or the Clients button (Mac OS).
The Clients list shows detailed information about the clients that are
currently connected to hosted databases.
For each client, you can display:
1 client account names
1 client computer names
1 client network addresses
1 timestamp (date and time) of when the connection began
1 number of files the client is currently connected to
Sending messages to FileMaker Pro clients
You can send a message to all FileMaker Pro clients by choosing
Action menu > Send Message to All (Windows) or Action menu >
Clients > Send Message to All Clients (Mac OS). If you select a single
client from the Clients view, the message is sent only to that client.
Another way of sending messages to clients is by scheduling a Send
Message task. For more information, see
chapter 5, “Scheduling
administrative tasks.”
Disconnecting clients
Disconnect a client from a hosted database by selecting Action
menu
> Disconnect All Clients (Windows) or Action menu > Clients >
Disconnect All Clients from Server (Mac OS). If you select a client from
the Clients view, only the selected client is disconnected.
You can send the client a message in addition to the standard
FileMaker
Pro message (the default).
The selected client sees a notification dialog box with your message
requesting that the client disconnect from the server.
When the set time elapses, FileMaker Server disconnects the client
and the client’s name disappears from the Clients view.
Closing hosted files
Close a databases and disconnect any clients accessing it by
choosing
Action menu > Close (Windows) or Action menu >
Databases
> Close Database (Mac OS).
You can send the client a message in addition to the standard
FileMaker
Pro message (the default).
Clients see a notification dialog box with your message requesting
that they close their connection to a file. When the set time elapses,
FileMaker
Server disconnects any remaining clients and closes the
file or files in the folder.
Closing many databases, a large database file, or a file with many
connected clients may take several minutes.
Tip You can close files from the command prompt (Windows) or the
terminal (Mac
OS). See “Using the command line to automate tasks”
on page 42 for more information.