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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3. From the pop-up menu at the top of the Connect to FileMaker
Server dialog box, choose
Local Servers, Favorite Servers, or Servers
Listed by LDAP.
If you are using FileMaker Server Admin on the same computer that
is running FileMaker Server, you can choose (localhost) in the Favorite
Servers view.
For a remote Server, add the IP address to Favorite Servers. You can
select a Server from the
Local Servers list and click Add to Favorites to
add it to the Favorite Servers list.
In the Servers Listed by LDAP list, you see FileMaker Servers that have
the
Register FileMaker Server with a directory service property enabled.
4. Select the FileMaker Server you want to administer, then click
Connect.
5. Type a user name and password, if you are prompted to enter it.
You are now ready to administer FileMaker Server using FileMaker
Server Admin. See
“Administering hosted databases” on page 29.
Default folders for plug-in files
Before starting FileMaker Server, be sure your plug-ins are in the
proper folders.
Server plug-ins
Windows: Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Extensions\
Plugins\
Mac OS: [hard disk]/Library/FileMaker Server/Extensions/Plugins/
Plug-ins to be updated automatically on client machines
Windows: Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Data\
Databases\AutoUpdate\
Mac OS: [hard disk]/Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/
AutoUpdate/
For information on placing database files in the proper folders, see
“Step 2. Place database files in the proper location” on page 26. For
information on placing script files in the proper folders, see “Default
folders for script files” on page 56.
Enabling database plug-ins
You can enable FileMaker Server to use plug-ins with hosted
databases. When plug-ins are used by hosted databases, field
calculations can be performed on the computer running FileMaker
Server. You copy plug-ins required by the hosted databases to the
FileMaker Server Extensions folder. Then, you can list and administer
server plug-ins with
Server Plug-ins (Windows) or View menu >
Plug-ins (Mac OS). See FileMaker Server Help for more information.
For information about creating plug-ins, see “Developing third-party
plug-ins” in the
FileMaker Pro Advanced Development Guide.
Preparing Mac OS plug-in files for conversion to .tar format
Before being converted to the .tar format by FileMaker Server,
Mac
OS plug-in files with resource forks must be processed by
software that will preserve the resource fork information.
See FileMaker Server Help for more information.
Note For information about automatically updating plug-ins on client
machines, see
“Allowing FileMaker Pro clients to download updates
automatically” on page 33.