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
32 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
Mac OS: To configure client properties, choose View menu >
Configure
, then click the Clients tab.
Setting the maximum number of clients
You can specify the maximum number of FileMaker Pro clients that
can be simultaneously connected to FileMaker
Server.
Note The memory requirements of FileMaker Server and
FileMaker
Server Advanced are directly related to the number of
clients and open files. If you specify large values for these, you should
also increase the amount of RAM reserved for the database cache. See
“Changing the amount of memory used by FileMaker Server” on
page 34 for more details.
Setting the maximum number of FileMaker Server Advanced clients
If you own FileMaker Server Advanced, you can enable ODBC and
JDBC data source connections and FileMaker Web Publishing Engine
sessions. The
Web Publishing Engine sessions option and the Server
Advanced Settings
options are only available with FileMaker Server
Advanced.
Setting the number of combined FileMaker Pro and ODBC/JDBC
connections
If you have FileMaker Server Advanced, you can specify the number
of simultaneous FileMaker
Pro and ODBC/JDBC clients allowed to
access FileMaker Server.
Setting the number of Web Publishing Engine sessions
If you have FileMaker Server Advanced, you can specify the
maximum number of simultaneous web browser sessions connecting
through the FileMaker Server Web Publishing Engine.
Tip If you monitor client usage over time and notice you rarely have
more than a certain number of each type of client active at one time,
set these options to allow only a few more than that number for best
performance on your server.
FileMaker Server Configure view, Clients tab
FileMaker Server Advanced Properties dialog box, Clients tab