Administering FileMaker Server

Admin Console is a web-based application that lets you configure and administer FileMaker Server, work with and monitor hosted databases and clients (client applications), and track statistical information.

To administer FileMaker Server, use Admin Console on the computer where FileMaker Server is running or on any computer that has network access to the primary machine running FileMaker Server. To secure remote administration, Admin Console uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt HTTPS connections from other computers.

Admin Console supports many FileMaker Server administration tasks. You can:

  • configure FileMaker Server application settings

  • open—or host—a FileMaker Pro database, making it available to clients on the network

  • view information about the files being hosted, like the number of clients accessing each database

  • send messages to connected clients

  • close a hosted FileMaker Pro database, making it unavailable to clients

  • download a hosted FileMaker Pro database to your local system

  • disconnect a selected client from all hosted databases

  • pause or resume hosted databases

  • create scheduled tasks to back up, verify, and clone hosted databases

  • create scheduled tasks to run system scripts, FileMaker scripts, and script sequences that contain both system scripts and FileMaker scripts

  • start or stop the Database Server

  • delegate database administration tasks to administrator roles

  • start, stop, or remove a FileMaker WebDirect secondary machine

  • start or stop the Web Publishing Engine

  • start or stop the FileMaker Data API Engine

  • configure settings for ODBC and JDBC

  • configure settings for FileMaker Data API

  • configure settings for FileMaker WebDirect

For detailed information, see FileMaker Server Help.