Command Line mode in FME Server

You cannot run fme.exe on an FME Server installation unless you have an FME Desktop license configured as well. Even then I would advice against it, as you are basically circumventing the entire point of FME Server.

The more logical solution would be to operate FME Server from the command line, you can use the FME Server Console application for this:

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/ReferenceManual/FME_Server_Console.htm

Yes i understand all the point of FME Server managing workspaces and having his own scheduler methods, ...

But in our case we want to migrate an existing ArcGIS / FME Linux environment that has a lot of existing .fmw scripts run by shells with scheduled crontabs.

Then we think it would be easier to initially upgrade these .fmw workspaces to FME 2020 , then run them similarly as the current scheduled command line mode (fme.exe).

Then we would after refactor this a proper FME Server implémentation.

We have an FME DEsktop FlexLm server with few available licenses.

Do you mean that we need to install both FME Server and FME Desktop on the windows server for this ?

Thanks

Bonjour

Yes, based on your description it sounds like having both might be the easiest short-time solution, as it would let you continue to use the current "Desktop-only" workspaces while you migrate them to FME Server.