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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Using reported events to track activities
FileMaker Server uses the Windows Event Viewer (Windows) or
Event.log (Mac OS ) to help you keep track of activities on the server.
These log files contain time-stamped information on:
1 FileMaker Server starting and stopping
1 database files opened and closed by FileMaker Server
1 consistency checks performed on files that were not closed
properly or have not been opened in a FileMaker 8 product
1 clients that connect to and disconnect from FileMaker Server, as
well as the files they access
1 clients that are disconnected by FileMaker Server
1 new, completed, upcoming, and currently running schedules
1 pre-defined errors and conditions that FileMaker Server detects in
your configuration
1 current properties settings when FileMaker Server starts up, as well
as settings that are changed during a FileMaker Server session
Viewing activities in the Event Viewer (Windows)
To view information about FileMaker Server activities, expand the
Windows Admin Tools node in the Console Root and select
Event
Viewer (local)
. Then, open the Event Viewer to select the Application,
Security, System, and FileMaker Server logs.
You see a list of FileMaker Server events. Double-click an event to
display details about it.
To save the log file contents in a text file, choose Action menu > Export
List
to save information displayed in the Event Viewer as a tab-
delimited text file (.TXT) and then import the information into a
FileMaker
Pro database for further analysis.
For more information about the error conditions reported in the event
log, see topics on event log messages and troubleshooting in Help.
Viewing activities in the Event.log (Mac OS)
The Event.log file is created in the FileMaker Server application
folder. You can use any application capable of opening plain text files
or the Mac
OS Console application to view or print it.
You can have the log file open in the Mac OS Console application
when FileMaker Server is running. Events are logged continuously,
with the most recent log entry at the bottom of the Console application
window. Event.log is created when FileMaker Server starts, only if
there is no existing Event.log. Activities are added to Event.log until
it reaches the maximum size, at which point it is renamed Event-
old.log, and a new Event.log is created.
The maximum size of the Event.log on Mac OS is 40 MB. For more
information, see
“Logging FileMaker Server events” on page 38.
For more information about the error conditions reported in the event
log, see topics about event log messages and troubleshooting in Help.
FileMaker
Server usage
statistics
counters
Statistics are
charted in
real-time here