Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Getting started
- Chapter 2 Migrating FileMaker Server from the previous version
- Read this first
- Step 1. Stop FileMaker Server
- Step 2. Make a copy of databases, scripts, and plug-ins
- Step 3. Save your settings
- Step 4. Uninstall FileMaker Server 7
- Step 5. Install FileMaker Server 8
- Step 6. Restore your settings
- Step 7. Move files to the proper location
- Step 8. Complete your migration
- For FileMaker Server Advanced users
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Server
- Chapter 4 Hosting databases
- Chapter 5 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 a directory service
- Setting FileMaker Server security
- Restoring FileMaker Server default settings
- How FileMaker Server behaves during system sleep or abnormal shutdown
- Chapter 6 Administering FileMaker Server
- 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
- Default folders for plug-in files
- 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 7 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
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Keep in mind the following points about the different uses of
FileMaker
Server and FileMaker Pro:
1 Use FileMaker Server to open and host FileMaker Pro files that
you want to make available to FileMaker
Pro clients on your network.
1 Use FileMaker Pro to create database files and to enable the
extended privileges necessary for sharing with FileMaker
Server.
Then host the database files on FileMaker
Server. Use FileMaker Pro
to modify the structure of existing hosted databases (for example, to
set up accounts and privileges for each hosted file).
The FileMaker Server Admin application
FileMaker Server Admin is an application in the Mac OS, and a
console in Windows. It lets you easily configure and administer
FileMaker
Server, work with and monitor hosted databases and
clients, and track statistical information.
FileMaker Server Admin can be run on the same computer where
FileMaker
Server is running (locally). Or, if FileMaker Server has
been configured to allow remote administration, FileMaker Server
Admin can be installed and run on a Windows or Mac
OS networked
computer in order to administer one or more FileMaker Servers
installed on other Windows or Mac
OS computers in the same
network.
When administering FileMaker Server, you can:
1 Configure FileMaker Server application properties.
1 Open—or host—a FileMaker Pro database file, making it available
to clients on the network.
1 View information about the files being hosted, like the number of
clients accessing each database.
1 Send messages to connected clients.
1 Close a hosted FileMaker Pro database, making it unavailable to
clients.
Console
Root
Details
Pane
Scope
Pane
FileMaker Server Admin (Windows)
FileMaker Server Admin (Mac OS)