A new release of my monitoring plugin for Nagios (and compatible) monitoring solutions is available. This version includes some added hardware monitoring for HDD, Memory & CPU Usage. There are many bug fixes which clean up a lot of the (null) and 404 errors that were occurring when run from a OSX monitoring server.
The Situation: You have a Mac OS X Server with network home directories and disk quotas enabled. The Problem: The Mac OS Finder on client machines does not have very good support for warning users they are approaching their file quota limit.
Serving Diskless Netboot for your Macs without OS X Server With the official death of the Xserve, some of you may be looking at your future plans for services you currently provide. If you plan to migrate away from OS X server for some functions, NetBoot can be one of them.
A new release of libsrvrmgrd-osx is out which now includes Nagios plugins to monitor and restart (in the event of failure) the following services:AFP DHCP Directory Services DNS FTP Jabber Mail MySQL NAT Netboot NFS…
Well, everybody seems to be asking why the iPad can’t print files, yet.If you are looking for iPad printing solutions, you might have come across funny approaches like this one, but this article is about a serious solution.
Some tips on where the certificates you've set up with Server Admin are hiding on your system and the differences between 10.5 and 10.6 in this regard.Read on for where everything lives an what to do about it...
Migrating 10.5 iCal Server to 10.6 with group calendarsIn Mac OS X 10.5 Server, user and group calendars were available in iCal server. User calendars worked pretty well, but group calendars were a bit of a kludge. The biggest mess was the web calendar.
For those who haven't tried it, Nagios is quite a cool monitoring package that will run on UNIX (Ed. There fixed that!) variants, including OS X Server. John C. Welch wrote up an article on setting up Nagios with a Leopard Server which was my inspiration.
I know that this isn't completely tested to see if it is a consistent behavior, but I ran into an issue after upgrading a Leopard server to Snow. The server was running mail services utilizing both the standard spool location and an alternate mail store.
For several months I've been searching for a complete solution that can offer access control, authentication, integrated search indexing of all content and content management itself for a company intranet that can…
