Tutorial: Getting Started with FME Server

MitaAtSafe created · Jan 21, 2016 at 11:36 PM · edited · Jun 22 at 10:42 PM

Article created with FME Server 2017.0

In part 1 of this tutorial, you'll learn what FME Server is, tour the Web User Interface, and run a sample workspace.

Introduction

Welcome to FME Server! This tutorial will give you hands-on experience with the basics of FME Server. It is comprised of 4 parts:

- Take a Tour of the Web Interface (current article)

- Publish a Workspace to FME Server and Run It

- Create Self-Serve Access to Data with FME Server

- Schedule a Workspace to Run with FME Server

Prerequisites

If you’d like to follow along with your own FME Server, here are the prerequisites:

a) FME Server must be installed

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b) FME Server must be licensed

See FME Server Licensing Walk-Through if you have not yet licensed FME Server.

c) FME Desktop must be installed and licensed

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d) Sample workspaces and data

Click here download the data for this tutorial

1. Take a Tour of the FME Server Web Interface

a) Open Web Interface

You can open the web user interface in a couple of different ways:

Type in http://localhost as a URL in a browser window
Type in your hostname/fmeserver as the URL in a browser window (the hostname was specified during the installation)
Access it from the Windows Start menu. Find FME Server in the Programs list and click on Web User Interface

b) Log In

For the purpose of this tutorial, log in with the default author/author username/password that gets set up with the installation, if you changed the username and password during installation, log in with that username:

username = author

password = author

c) Take a Tour

The 3 large buttons in the top right corner of the homepage represent the most common tasks carried out with FME Server:

Run Workspace, Manage Schedules, Manage Notifications

In the main view are panels showing favourite workspaces, last published workspaces, recent jobs, and recent projects. These are all empty right now because this is a fresh installation. Lastly at the very bottom left is where you’ll find information about the build and version of your FME Server.

On the left hand side is a panel with the content menu options of FME Server.

FME Server will always bring you back to this home page.
The first grouping which includes Run Workspaces allows a user to select and manage jobs and resources available to that user.
Under the Admin are a number of options for configuring FME Server.
See the Help menu for links to documentation and articles, including resources for developers

2. Run a Sample Workspace

Run one of the sample workspaces from the web user interface:

a) Click on the Run Workspace button.

This is where we can select a workspace already published to FME Server, and run it.

b) Choose the Repository the workspace is in

You can think of a repository as a folder in which to store related items. FME Server 2017 comes with three repositories pre-installed. We are just interested in the Samples repository, so select it.

c) Choose which Workspace to Run

The Workspace drop down lists the workspaces within the Samples repository. Select austinApartments.fmw.

d) Select the Service with which to run the workspace

This one was registered with 4 services...we’ll discuss services some more when we publish and register our own workspace in exercise 3. For now, select the Data Streaming service.

e) Click on Run Workspace (Bottom right)

When the job is ready the button will turn green, after the workspace is executed by FME the result, a kmz file in this case, will be downloaded through the browser.