Snow Leopard™ Server

Chapter 11. Additional Advanced Admin Tools

In This Chapter

• iCal Server Utility

• Server Monitor

• RAID Admin

• System Image Utility

• Command-line tools

Apple supplies a variety of server administration tools that ship with Mac OS X Server on the installation DVD within the Other Installs folder:

• Server Admin is used for enabling and configuring services on the server and managing access to them.

• Workgroup Manager is supplied for working with both local accounts and network-accessible directory domain user, group, and computer account records. It's also used for assigning managed preferences to these accounts.

• iCal Server Utility is used to manage global contact information stored in Open Directory. Prior to Snow Leopard, this application was named Directory.app (not to be confused with Directory Utility).

• Server Monitor is used to monitor the status of Xserve hardware that supports various reporting sensors and, on Xserve (late 2006) models or later, supports Lights-Out Management.

• RAID Admin is used to administer the now-discontinued Xserve RAID appliance.

• System Image Utility is used to create NetBoot, NetRestore, and NetInstall images for network delivery to client machines.

• Command-line tools provide access to the features of Apple's supplied graphical administration applications from Terminal or a remote shell, allowing for remote access administration and configuration by using SSH and the creation of scripted tasks that can be run on a schedule.

Note

For more on Server Admin, see Chapter 9. For ...