FM Server Settings messed up

January 30, 200718 yr

We have had this happening to our server for a while, but how it happens to the servers at one of our other divisions.

when I go into the admin console, either locally or remote, and click through the tabs, I see strange results. (see the attached PDF)

On the first image, it show ODBC and JDBC connections set to 0. This should be 50. Web Publishing Connections should be 250, I believe.

Under the Minimum idle time allowed... I don't know off the top of my head what this should be, but the time that is in there is the system time when I opened the properties dialog box.

The second image is pretty self explanatory. I get the error dialog when I try to click to another tab. the default cache fluch time again is the current system time, and the max number of files to host should be at 75.

A reboot of the server fixes this temporarily, but I don't think this is normal behavior.

Anybody have any ideas?

Like I said, at first, it was only us, but now it is happening at another division of ours as well. I ould really rather not reinstallthe server if I can avoid it.

FMServer.pdf

Edited January 30, 200718 yr by Guest

January 31, 200718 yr

That is very weird. FMS keeps the configuration info in the registry. What kind of processes do you have running (backup,...) that would touch the registry?

Check the registry to make sure these settings are not stored somewhere like you see them?

January 31, 200718 yr

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I was wondering where the settings were stored..

I did check the registry. While some of the key names in there are not distinguishable, there were a bunch that I could match up. the key values in the registry for number of files hosted, for example, is correct, but the admin console is still wrong - when run from the machine itself or remotely.

Any ideas why the server admin console would be reading/reporting the values wrong and how can this be fixed?

The only backups that are run on this machine are from the FileMaker Server schedule. these then get copied off to a remote volume where they are archived to tape from there. there is no anti virus on that machine.

February 5, 200718 yr

Nothings that jumps out at me. What I would do is to use WinInternals Registry monitor and see what it reports when you use the SAt tool. Maybe that will give some clues.