Administrator’s Guide

50 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
Viewing usage statistics for FileMaker Server
You can display usage statistics, such as how FileMaker Server is
performing and how many clients are logged into FileMaker
Server.
To display FileMaker Server usage statistics, select Statistics in the
Console Root (Windows) or
View menu > Statistics (Mac OS).
You see the Statistics list.
The following statistics are listed:
When enabled, FileMaker Server updates the Statistics list every 15
seconds or less but no more than once a second. Although this reduces
the overhead required to calculate the statistics, it means the statistics
are approximations of how FileMaker
Server is using resources.
For information about where usage statistics are stored, see
“Recording usage statistics and setting log file size limits” on page 37.
Monitoring server performance (Windows)
To monitor usage statistics on the FileMaker Server computer, expand
the Windows Administrative Tools node in the Console Root and
select
System Monitor.
Using the Windows System Monitor, you can chart real-time statistics
for various aspects of FileMaker
Server performance and display the
statistics in graph, histogram, or report format. Click the
+ toolbar
button to configure the statistics you want to chart.
You can customize the display by selecting the FileMaker Server
computer, choosing FileMaker Server as the Performance Object, and
selecting the Counters. The counters are the statistics described in
“Viewing usage statistics for FileMaker Server” on page 50.
Note Network KB/sec, Disk KB/sec, Cache Hit %, and Cache Unsaved %
give you the most information about how your system is performing.
Statistic Description
Network
(Kbytes/sec)
Amount of data being transferred across the network.
FileMaker Pro
Clients
Number of connected FileMaker Pro clients. Use this
information to help configure the maximum number of
simultaneously connected clients.
Files Number of open databases. Use this information to configure
the Maximum number of files to host option.
Disk (Kbytes/sec) Amount of data being written to disk.
Cache Unsaved % Percentage of cache that is currently unsaved. This should be
a relatively low number, such as 0 or 5, so you won’t lose data
if you experience a system crash. If the number is consistently
high, consider decreasing the cache flush interval.
Cache Hit % Percentage of times that FileMaker Server retrieved data
from the cache (RAM) rather than from the hard disk.
Reading data from RAM is much more efficient than reading
it from the hard disk, so this value should be a high number,
like 90 or 95. If it isn’t, you might need to allocate more
memory to the FileMaker Server database cache.
Choose FileMaker Server
Name of the server you are
monitoring
Click to add a selected counter
to your chart
Select FileMaker Server usage
statistics counters to
add to your chart