Administrator’s Guide

Chapter 4
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Administering hosted databases
After you are connected to FileMaker Server, you can view
information about hosted databases by selecting Databases in the
Console Root (Windows) or by selecting the
Databases button
(Mac
OS). From the list of databases, you can select one file or one
folder for the following administrative tasks:
1 view database details
1 open and close selected databases
1 pause and resume selected databases
1 send messages to clients accessing hosted databases
1 disconnect clients from hosted databases
Tip With no database or folder selected, some commands operate on
all databases.
For more information, see “The FileMaker Server Admin application”
on page 11.
Viewing hosted databases
The Databases view shows database folders and files located on the
FileMaker Server computer. Each folder can be opened to view a list
of database files in each folder.
You can view a list of the database files hosted by FileMaker Server,
regardless of which folder in which they are located, by selecting
Databases > Files in the Console Root (Windows) or Action menu >
Databases > Hide Folders (Mac OS).
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 Pro Advanced 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 7, “Scheduling
administrative tasks.”