An error message will appear if more installations than purchased are trying to connect. The License Certificate tracks the number of user licenses on file, as well as how many users are connected to the FileMaker Server. The License Certificate is also utilized during the FileMaker Server installation. With the release of FileMaker Pro Advanced 17, FileMaker began using the License Certificatein place of the License Key.

This seems straightforward, but you can’t continue past the error screen. You want to install FileMaker Pro 19, but you’re halted when the program won’t accept the FileMaker License Key information. You must be logged in to the machine where FileMaker Server is running.Are you unable to install FileMaker 17, 18 or 19? Perhaps you’re entering your FileMaker License Key information correctly, but still can’t finish the installation. To start or stop FileMaker Server manually: If you choose not to have the FileMaker Server processes started during macOS startup or if you stopped the processes, you can start them again manually. Typically, the FileMaker Server processes are started when the machine is started. In a multiple-machine deployment, FileMaker Server processes run on each machine. In macOS, FileMaker Server runs as several background processes that start when FileMaker Server is installed. You do this either by restarting the machine or by restarting the FileMaker Server processes.

For example, after you restrict access to Admin Console (on the Administration tab), you must restart all FileMaker Server components.

There may be times when you need to start or stop all components of FileMaker Server on a machine. Starting or stopping FileMaker Server background processes (macOS)

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