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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Configuring FileMaker Server 33
Enabling ODBC and JDBC connections
You can use FileMaker Server Advanced to host a FileMaker database
file as a data source, sharing your data with other applications using
ODBC and JDBC.
For information on installing drivers, see Installing FileMaker ODBC
and JDBC Client Drivers
.
For information on configuring FileMaker Server Advanced for
ODBC and JDBC, see the
FileMaker ODBC and JDBC Developer’s
Guide
.
Enabling the xDBC plug-in
The xDBC plug-in is installed with the rest of the product, but you
must enable the plug-in before you can share data with other
applications using ODBC and JDBC.
See FileMaker Server Help for more information.
Registering the Web Publishing Engine
You can allow a Web Publishing Engine access to hosted databases by
registering it with FileMaker Server. The Web Publishing Engine
server is registered in FileMaker Server by an identifier text string and
a passcode.
For information about installing and configuring the Web Publishing
Engine, see the
FileMaker Server Advanced Web Publishing
Installation Guide
.
Setting the maximum time allowed for idle FileMaker Pro
clients
You can specify the length of time that FileMaker Pro clients can be
idle in any database hosted by FileMaker Server before they are
disconnected. Because clients who are disconnected have to reopen
the file, you should make sure the idle time is long enough to avoid
frequent disconnections.
Note In FileMaker Pro, you can enable a privilege to disconnect a
client connected to FileMaker Server when the client is idle. When
this privilege is enabled, FileMaker
Pro disconnects the client from
FileMaker Server. For more information about privileges, see the
FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.
Allowing FileMaker Pro clients to download updates
automatically
You can store plug-in files on the FileMaker Server computer and
allow FileMaker
Pro clients to download these files automatically
when they open database files hosted by FileMaker Server. Examples
of files you can download automatically are plug-in license files,
sometimes required by FileMaker
Pro databases.
When a FileMaker Pro file is hosted by FileMaker Server, any plug-
ins required by the file must exist on each client computer used to open
the database. By allowing plug-in updates to be downloaded
automatically, you ensure that all clients have access to plug-ins
required by a database the first time they attempt to open it. In
addition, when plug-ins are changed by database developers, you can
store new versions on the FileMaker Server computer, so you don’t
have to update plug-ins on client computers.
For automatic file downloading to work correctly, you must place
current plug-in files in the following folders:
Windows: Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Data\
Databases\AutoUpdate\
Mac OS: [hard disk]/Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/
AutoUpdate/