Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Getting started
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Server
- Chapter 3 Configuring FileMaker Server
- Using the configuration assistants (Windows)
- Configuring client connections
- Setting database properties
- Opening runtime solutions automatically
- Specifying additional database and default backup folders
- Setting administrative properties
- Recording usage statistics and setting log file size limits
- Configuring directory services
- Setting FileMaker Server security
- Restoring FileMaker Server default settings
- How FileMaker Server behaves during system sleep or abnormal shutdown
- Chapter 4 Administering FileMaker Server
- Default folders for files
- Starting FileMaker Server (Windows)
- Stopping FileMaker Server (Windows)
- Starting FileMaker Server (Mac OS)
- Stopping FileMaker Server (Mac OS)
- Overview of starting and stopping FileMaker Server using FileMaker Server Admin
- Connecting to FileMaker Server using FileMaker Server Admin
- Administering hosted databases
- Enabling database plug-ins
- Viewing usage statistics for FileMaker Server
- Monitoring server performance (Windows)
- Using reported events to track activities
- Using FileMaker Server in Mac OS
- Using the command line to automate tasks
- Chapter 5 Scheduling administrative tasks
- Scheduling database backups
- Running script files
- Sending messages to clients of hosted databases
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules view (Windows)
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules view (Mac OS)
- Running scheduled tasks manually
- Editing scheduled tasks
- Duplicating scheduled tasks
- Deleting scheduled tasks
- Enabling and disabling scheduled tasks
- Index
52 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
Shutdown, checking for file corruption 30
Size
cache 22
file 45
log files 25
Sleep, by operating system 29
Solutions, runtime 23
Sorting
file listings 36
schedules 46
SSL 9, 29
Standby mode (Windows) 29
Starting
FileMaker Server, automatically
Mac OS 16
Windows 15
FileMaker Server, manually
Mac OS 16, 33
Windows 15, 31
Static IP addresses 14
Statistics
collecting 25
viewing 37
System Monitor (Windows) 38
Stopping FileMaker Server
Mac OS 34
Windows 32
Subfolders 31
System crash, checking for file corruption 30
System requirements 13
T
Tagged PDF files 6
Tasks, scheduling. See Schedules
TCP/IP 14
TechInfo database 6
Technical support, contacting 6
Timestamps 26, 36
Troubleshooting 39
system crash 30
U
Uninstalling FileMaker Server (Windows) 16
Unsaved cache percentage 38
Upgrading files 10
Usage statistics
logging 25
viewing 37
User accounts 24
User names
administrators 24
clients 28
V
Viewing
FileMaker Server events 39
hosted files list 35
protected files 28
scheduled tasks 46
usage statistics 37
VPNs 37
W
Web publishing 8, 14
enabling 21
installing Web Publishing Engine 13
number of clients 20
SSL protection 9, 29
Web Publishing Engine 7, 13
Web site, FileMaker 6
Writing client data to disk 22