FM 18 Admin Console app

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TMS Software, LLC, introduces its new FileMaker Admin Console application for FileMaker Version 18, making use of the Admin API, FMSADMIN calls, and the Data API. It is released to the FileMaker community at no cost.

Why would someone want to use this software when FileMaker has a perfectly good web Admin console? Here are several reasons.

• By getting the same information in a FileMaker solution, developers can use the information in conjunction with other FileMaker solutions.
• The web Admin Console does not allow you to turn off the automatic 7 daily preserved backups.
• The web Admin Console no longer generates CSR requests for FileMaker Server.
• For FileMaker Server on OS X 10.14, Mojave, it will restart your web httpserver service after a reboot which has been known to be a common failure resulting in WebDirect and Web Admin Console not working except locally.
• Log files can only be downloaded from the web Admin Console, they cannot be viewed and updated immediately like in this solution.
• This solution lets you run a script, not a scheduled script, directly from the solution on demand.
• Certain monitoring stats are available to you like database size or amount of bandwidth executed for each data API call.
• From a FM solution you can easily open and close, schedules, backups, and message or disconnect users.
• This solution is highly customizeable and the web Admin Console is not.

The software can be downloaded by going to https://www.tms.us and then clicking on the "Contact Us" button in the top right. A Web Page with instructions is available at https://www.tms.us/FileMaker/AdminAPI.html.

Note this replaces the Admin API app for FM 17 and it is not backwards compatible because the Admin API is different in version 18. Full functional use requires installation of the Base Elements on FMPA and FMS.  This has only been tested on FMS 18 and OS X 10.14.