Server monitor : my turn

Like other people, i would like to manage my xserve remotely (like the advertisement promise).
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configuration :
* xserve 1.1
* os server 10.4.10 (8R2218b)
* LOM Revision 1.2.7
* only one ethernet port used,
* in the etc/hostconfig, the hostname is -AUTOMATIC-
* i did not configure the LOM initially (because i did'nt ask for a specific ip adress dedicated for LOM at this time). My provider gave me then a specific adress for LOM on the same subnet.
* dns and reverse dns for the server and LOM are configured by the provider and work fine,
* I configured the LOM like 'defor' advised in his Aug 22, 2007 post in
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=940740&tstart=0
* I did shutdown/disconnect/reconnect power/power on.
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Problems are :
1) malfunction of server monitor localy (via vnc)
Server Monitor shows Name = localhost, IP=127.0.01 : is it ok ? .
It gives informations about the hardware but :
= i cannot write email adresses into the "edit notification panel". The "Add" button remains grey.
= the "restart button" doesn't work... "Failed to contact server".
2) no remote server monitor.
From my Mac book Pro (localized French)
I notice that in the list : 'Nom' is empty and 'Adress IP' is correct (writing the IP or the name) and the status remains 'Attente de reponse'
3) ipmitool
ipmitool -U [myLOMadminaccount] -H [LOMIP] chassis power status
ask for password,
wait 3 seconds and return nothing (the prompt)...the same for others commands
but "sudo ipmitool -v -v user list 1" gives well the 2 accounts (1 ADMINISTRATOR, 1 USER)
Thanks in advance for your help.

Happy news from my system :
I went to the data center yesterday to try different configurations of LOM but first applied the Xserve Firmware Update 1.0.
A "power off/disconnect power cord (and ethernet cable, why, not ?) dance " and bingo :
1) Server monitor on my MacBook connects to the xserve,
2) I can add an email notification,
3) i can restart the xserve from my laptop.
But... it's not complete...
The history log shows (translating from french) every x minutes : three times 'unable to contact the server' then 'connection lost' then, after few seconds the update time is refreshed as the elapse live time of the xserve in the "infos" panel :
Is-it a real update or a fake ?
To be sure (silly question ?), is it possible to simulate a xserve problem in the scope of server monitor (and test the notification by email) ?
Admin server has the same problem : connection lost after x minutes

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Server monitor not working (hardware monitor)

Just finnished installing my brand new maxed out Intel Xserves. And the Server monitor isn't working.
This thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=643361
Didn't solve my problem. hwmond is running on the Xserves but each server line just says "Waiting for response". My /System/Library/ServerSetup/SetupExtras file doesn't even HAVE a Disabled key. It has Label, OnDemand, Program, ProgramArguments and ServiceIPC keys, but no Disabled. And the hwmonds is running anyway.
I have opened server monitor on the xserve itself and tried to open it to itself with no luck. I have configured Lights out management by choosing Server->Configure local Machine and added another IP there with different login, but I can't connect to either IP. Firewalls are all turned off.
Running /System/Library/ServerSetup/SetupExtras/hwmondSetup just says "already loaded"
Server Admin works, I can log in and edit services. Workgroup manager also works.
When i run the hwmond as root on the server, it says "Failed to communicate with the front panel" which could be due to hwmond already running, but I can't turn off the process since launchd (?) launches it again.
When I choose "Configure local Machine" the password I entered is always blank, but maybe that's by design.
Since these servers aren't installed yet I have them in my office and their IP's are temporary, so I read this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106830
And it says that for this environment I should set the hostname to "localhost" in /etc/hostconfig. Done. Nothing changed.
I've googled this and searched here but found nothing. I'm running out of options... What should I do?

I set the server on a desk and do a fresh install off a DVD with the "erase HD" option. Then I install and configure the software I need (Software update, Sophos, power options, etc.) I did not configure LOM at that point, because I wasn't sure how to do it, and I needed to deploy the server. (luckily LOM was easy enough to set up after it was deployed.) Once the server is ready, I connect a FireWire HD to it, which has OS installed on it and boot from that.
That way my server is just an attached disk, and I use Disk Utility to create an image of it, which I then deploy on other servers.
I've had an issue with the G5 XServes where such a method required relatively simple modification before the server monitor would work:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301046
But, I've not had to do that with the Intel XServes.

Why does Server Monitor not work with non-Xserves?

Does anyone know why Server Monitor does not work with non-Xserve computers? We acquired a Power Mac for a server, based on there being no apparent difference except for the obvious. Turns out there are some differences after all.
Do Power Macs lack some hardware components or is this just a software thing?

God question, unfortunitly I dont have the answer but I would also like to know why the software only works for X-Serve....Is there any 3rd Party Software that is similar to "Server Monitor"?
Thanks

How to change language of the server monitor ?

hi all,
How to change language of the server monitor ? i got it in japanese and would like to turn it into English.
Thx for your help,

We use japanese strings only when your server locale has "jp": FindNoCase("Japan", GetLocale()) NEQ 0. So you may not be able to individually change server monitor's flash client, but there are two ways to change it back to english on server level
1) Check your server locale and change it to anything but japanese.
2) Rename smresource_en.xml to smresource_jp.xml in CFIDE\administrator\monitor (take a back up).
Thanks,
Chandan Kumar

Server Monitor Buttons Missing

The Monitoring, Profiling and Memory Tracking buttons are all missing from the Server Monitor and it is not displaying any data. Where did they go? I'm on CF9/Multi-server and Windows Server 2008/64 bit. My CF server instances are running under a domain account so they can get to network shares. I'm using multiple jvm.config files to give some servers more memory than others. I've tried adding the domain account to the Administrators group, made sure monitoring, profiling and memory tracking are all enabled, and made sure the crossdomain.xml file is in the webroot.

Well, first briefly, I've seen this happen (the start/stop buttons don't appear), where simply refreshing the page made them reappear.
Assuming you've confirmed that doesn't solve it, here are some questions that may help us hone in on the problem:
- does this happen on all the instances or just one?
- you say you are on CF9. Do you mean 9 or 9.0.1?
- Have you applied any hotfixes or cumulative hotfixes? (And I'd ask you to confirm that not from memory but from confirming by looking in the lib\updates directory. On Multiserver, that's \servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfusion\lib\updates for the cfusion instance, or \servers\instancename\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\WEB-INF\cfusion\lib\updates for any others (note change from - to . in the ear/war directory names).
- Are the hotfixes there the right ones for the version you're running (not 900 in the filenames if you're running 9.01, or vice-versa)
- When you say it's "not displaying any data", do you mean that the graphs on the front page are essentially blank? That would mean simply that "start monitoring" has not yet been enabled. When you say "no data", I'd want to make sure you don't mean that none of the screens show anything. There are many that show data even if there are none of the "start" buttons enabled, such as the Template Cache Status page (on the Statistics tab, in the "Request Statistics" section). Is that "displaying data"? Just trying to help clarify your situation.
Also, just as a workaround until you do solve this, note that if you're on 9.01, you can now at least turn the buttons on and off in the CF Admin, something that's gone under the radar for many, it seems.
Hope that's helpful.
/charlie arehart
[email protected]
Providing CF and CFBuilder troubleshooting services
at http://www.carehart.org/consulting

How can Server Monitor report status if LOM isn't configured?

I'm now managing a large number of Xserves (PPC & Intel, 10.4/5/6) and the organisation has not before relied on LOM or central reporting of faults.
I predict most of my issues are firewall related (many remote sites) but there are some remote machines that do appear and function in my Server Monitor running on my macbook... but when checking the LOM config on that server it turns out there's nothing configured... how is this so?
Does LOM have to be fully configured to allow Server Monitor to function? or only to allow for 'remote hands' when the server is flaky, and Server Montior will function just as long as LOM is enabled?

bpwell wrote:
I'm now managing a large number of Xserves (PPC & Intel, 10.4/5/6) and the organisation has not before relied on LOM or central reporting of faults.
I predict most of my issues are firewall related (many remote sites) but there are some remote machines that do appear and function in my Server Monitor running on my macbook... but when checking the LOM config on that server it turns out there's nothing configured... how is this so?
Does LOM have to be fully configured to allow Server Monitor to function? or only to allow for 'remote hands' when the server is flaky, and Server Montior will function just as long as LOM is enabled?
It may depend on the model of XServe. Older models did not have LOM so obviously LOM is not needed for those (e.g. an old G5 XServe). I also found that if your running Server Monitor on the XServe itself then it can locally monitor without LOM, but for other XServes I found I did need to configure LOM.

Server Monitoring issue

I have a clean installation of CFMX 9.01 J2EE version. In the Admin tool when I click on Monitoring Settings I get this error:
Variable ERROR_SETTINGS is undefined.
Then when I click on Server Monitor I get this error:
The isMonitoringServerEnabled method was not found.
Any ideas why? Everthing else appears to work fine..
- Alex

ok I have fixed this.. Turns out I did not apply the 901 update.. Now cf monitoring works.

Server Monitor Notifications - Drive Status Changed - Time Machine

I'm using an Xserve as a file server for a small workgroup . It has a Raid 1 set which is being backed up via Time Machine to an attached disk array.
Whenever Time Machine runs (every hour), I get two notifications from Server Monitor that the drive status has changed:
*Reason(s) for notification:*
*Drive status changed*
The timestamps on the notifications coincide with these messages in system.log
Feb 2 11:28:05 ciesaxserve2 Server Monitor[854]: * _NSSocket.m:243 read() failed; socket=0x197060 error=(NSPOSIXErrorDomain,61)
Feb 2 11:28:05 ciesaxserve2 Server Monitor[854]: * _NSSocket.m:243 write() failed; socket=0x197060 error=(NSPOSIXErrorDomain,61)
Feb 2 11:28:05 ciesaxserve2 Server Monitor[854]: * _NSSocket.m:243 read() failed; socket=0x2090e90 error=(NSPOSIXErrorDomain,61)
Feb 2 11:28:05 ciesaxserve2 Server Monitor[854]: * _NSSocket.m:243 write() failed; socket=0x2090e90 error=(NSPOSIXErrorDomain,61)
and:
Feb 2 11:28:55 ciesaxserve2 servermgrd[78]: servermgr_backup: TimeMachinePostBackupHook called.
Feb 2 11:28:55 ciesaxserve2 servermgrd[78]: servermgr_backup: TimeMachinePostBackupHook done.
The notifications simply report that all is normal, and the number of available drives goes from 6, to 7, back to 6. Something to do with making the backup volume available, I presume.
I would like to disable these specific messages. I realize I can disable all messages from server monitor regarding disk statuses, but then I would be turning off messages about failures and actual problems.
Is there a config I can edit which will only alert me to actual problems? I'd like to stop getting 48 emails each day; reduce the noise and increase the signal.

I know this post is old but this has recently cropped up for me. I have been backing up with Time Machine for months without a single alert. It started happening after I replaced the failed battery on my RAID card. A coincidence...however the prolonged down time surely caused an SMC (and perhaps PRAM) reset which I assume triggered the change in behavior.
I've pinned it down to Time Machine backing up service settings, in particular the Open Directory archive. Time Machine backs up all the service data independently from the rest of the data on your server startup volume.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5139
You can see this data in Terminal.
serveradmin$ cd /Volumes/[YourBackupVolume]/Backups.backupdb/[YourServerName]/Latest/[YourBootVolume]/.ServerBackups
serveradmin$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root admin    68 4 Jun 14:44 (null)
drwxr-xr-x@ 14 root admin   476 4 Jun 14:44 .
drwxrwxr-t@ 43 root admin 1462 4 Jun 14:43 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin    37 4 Jun 14:44 .serverBackupSignature
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root admin    68 4 Jun 14:44 addressBookServer
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root admin    68 4 Jun 14:44 calendarServer
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root admin   170 4 Jun 14:44 iChatServer
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root admin   204 4 Jun 14:44 mailServer
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 3826 4 Jun 14:44 master.browse.plist
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root admin   136 4 Jun 14:43 openDirectory
drwxr-xr-x@ 61 root admin 2074 4 Jun 14:44 serverSettings
drwxr-xr-x@ 23 root admin   782 4 Jun 14:44 sharePoints
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 root admin   272 4 Jun 14:44 webServer
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root admin    68 4 Jun 14:44 wikiServer
If you take a look inside the openDirectory folder you should see this:
serveradmin$ cd openDirectory
serveradmin$ ls -al
total 81936
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root admin       136 4 Jun 15:32 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 14 root admin       476 4 Jun 15:33 ..
-rw-rw----@ 1 root admin 41947136 4 Jun 15:32 ServerBackup_OpenDirectoryMaster.sparseimage
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin       249 4 Jun 15:32 openDirectory.browse.plist
The ServerBackup_OpenDirectoryMaster.sparseimage contains an archive of your Open Directory database like the one you create from Server Admin. The only difference is that it appears to be unencrypted. This is a bit worrying since Snow Leopard, as far as I know, does not have an option to encrypt your Time Machine backup. This image seems to invisibly mount whenever a Time Machine backup is triggered. This can be verified by checking /private/var/log/system.log and filtering for backup
serveradmin$ tail -b 100 /var/log/system.log | grep backup
Jun 4 16:00:56 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Starting standard backup
Jun 4 16:00:56 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Backing up to: /Volumes/YourBackupVolume/Backups.backupdb
Jun 4 16:00:56 yourservername servermgrd[75]: servermgr_backup: TimeMachinePreBackupHook called.
Jun 4 16:09:26 yourservername servermgrd[75]: servermgr_backup: TimeMachinePreBackupHook done.
Jun 4 16:09:44 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 4.60 GB requested (including padding), 8.40 GB available
Jun 4 16:10:14 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Copied 744 files (364.4 MB) from volume YourBootDrive.
Jun 4 16:10:14 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 4.09 GB requested (including padding), 8.04 GB available
Jun 4 16:10:17 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Copied 87 files (877 KB) from volume YourBootDrive.
Jun 4 16:10:18 yourservername servermgrd[75]: servermgr_backup: TimeMachinePostBackupHook called.
Jun 4 16:10:18 yourservername servermgrd[75]: servermgr_backup: TimeMachinePostBackupHook done.
Jun 4 16:10:18 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jun 4 16:10:29 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Deleted backup /Volumes/YourBackupVolume/Backups.backupdb/yourservername/2013-06-03-155910: 8.40 GB now available
Jun 4 16:10:29 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Jun 4 16:10:29 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Backup completed successfully.
You can see at 16:00:56 Server Manager got a call from Time Machine to start the services backup and finished at 16:09:26. Open Directory would have been backed up during that process. Take a look at /private/var/log/hwmond.log
serveradmin$ tail /private/var/log/hwmond.log
Tue Jun 4 16:08:36 BST 2013 - Number of drives change from 4 to 5.
Tue Jun 4 16:08:48 BST 2013 - Number of drives change from 5 to 4.
You'll see that both drive change warnings from Server Monitor occured just before the services backup completed. You can also use the sudo diskarbitrationd -d command along with tail /private/var/log/diskarbitrationd.log in another terminal window, trigger a Time Machine backup manually and watch this disk image mount during the backup process. Compare the mount times with the above logs to see if they all match up.
Although I have discovered the cause (which thankfully seems harmless) I have not discovered a way to stop it from generating pointless alerts. I'll post here if I figure it out. I am in the process of upgrading all of my servers to Mountain Lion so it may be a moot point. I am hopeful this information may help someone out there even though it is thoroughly out of date.
Scot

Problems with server monitor

Hi all,
2 days ago, I cant connect to my xserve via Server Monitor ... and I dont know why. Via server admin I dont have any problem. The message is the following:
"Waiting for response" ....
I see the following web:
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20070211101829496&query=lights%2Bout%2Bm anagement
Is useful this command?
Is there any manner to restart the LOM Interface without power off the xserve?

I've seen that happen once or twice, when the Xserve LOM got confused and/or the daemon became confused.
In the immortal words of the IT Crowd — "Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?" I've cleared that by shutting down Xserve entirely, removing grid power for 30+ seconds — it's that power removal which triggers the complete LOM reset, the physical disconnection of Xserve from the grid power — and then re-connecting and re-powering and rebooting the Xserve. If Xserve isn't physically disconnected from grid power, the LOM retains power.
Here are the LOM setup details. There are a couple of related threads around, as well; here's one.
You may alread be aware of this, but if you're using Server Monitor directly from the local Xserve system, you must use the local connection path and not the network path, too.

HOW TO: Relay/Send email from websites, Server Monitor in OS 10.5 Server

If you don't want to run your own mail server or configure DNS on your Xserve, but you still want your website or applications like Server Monitor to send email notifications; this is what you need to do:
Scenario: Mac OS 10.5.2 Leopard - Advanced Configuration - Setup is for strictly sending emails through SMTP, routed through your ISP or another provider. This is not for receiving emails.
-Open up Server Admin
If you have yet to add in a server to admin, you need to do so. Resource PDFs on setting up OS X Server are available at Apple http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/ and there are video tutorials at http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=373
-Click on your server, then choose the Settings button
-Then choose Services from the Tabs/Buttons below
-Select the Mail checkbox and then hit Save
-Now choose the newly added Mail service in the left pane, then click the Settings button up top
-Start with the Advanced tab. Under Security, un-check everything and don't use SSL unless you want to. You don't need to mess with the other sub-tabs here.
-Next choose the Logging Tab. Under SMTP log level, choose debug so you will be able to see what goes on in the log.
-Mailing List, Quotas and Filters tabs can go untouched. You can mess with them later if you want.
-Click the Relay tab. It is a good idea to only accept relays from your local machine. If you uncheck this, I believe it leaves you with an open relay that anybody can access.
-Now for the General Tab. Under Domain Name put anything you want. Any made up name and extension is fine.
Under Host Name, again put anything you want.
Un-check Enable POP, Un-check Enable IMAP - Basically un-check everything
Check or leave checked Enable SMTP
Now check Relay outgoing mail through host:
Then enter your hosts SMTP server. ex. smtpout.secureserver.net
Now check Authenticate to relay with user name: and enter your username and password
-Now hit the Save button
-Now we need to take a look at the main.cf file and add a few things
-If you aren't showing all files in Finder already, open up Terminal.app
Now type in: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles True
Hit enter
Now type in: killall Finder
Now Finder should reset and all files should be visible - To hide all files, do the same thing but type False
-Now open Macintosh HD and navigate to /private/etc/postfix/main.cf (Note: you won't be able to open and edit this in TextEdit. I recommend a program like TextWrangler http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.shtml )
-Once you have main.cf open, all your settings should be together at the bottom of the doc. Scroll down. You will need to add in a few lines and verify all the settings are exactly as below (except of course your own names and SMTP server):
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
mydomain_fallback = anything.anyting
messagesizelimit = 0
myhostname = anything.anything
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mydomain = anything.anything
mailboxsizelimit = 0
enableserveroptions = yes
inet_interfaces = all
relayhost = smtpout.secureserver.net
smtpsasl_passwordmaps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
smtpsasl_authenable = yes
smtpdsasl_authenable = no
smtpsasl_securityoptions =
smtpduse_pwserver = no
smtpdrecipientrestrictions = permitmynetworks,reject_unauthdestination,permit
smtpdpw_server_securityoptions = none
-Now save the main.cf document
-Now go back to Macintosh HD and navigate to /private/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
Open passwd with TextWrangler or you editing app, and verify that your SMTP server, username and password are correct. It should look something like this:
smtpout.secureserver.net [email protected]:password
-This should be what you entered in Server Admin when you first started. If all is well, quit your editing app.
-Now, while you are still at /private/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd you need to edit permissions for passwd
You can chmod in Terminal.app or secondary click on passwd and "Get Info"
Click the lock and enter your password to unlock the settings
Next click the + button and add yourself and Admin
-Now you can close out of everything and go back to Server Admin
-Hit the Reload (twisty arrow) button at the bottom and once everything is reloaded, hit Start Mail
-Now type localhost in your browser to see if your website can send email. You can also open up other apps such as Server Monitor and do something to change the status to have it send an email.
-You can click on Mail in the Server Admin and then view the SMTP log. As long as emails are being sent and then removed from the queue, you are in good shape. If you are getting an SASL error or mechanism error, open up main.cf and verify your settings and/or check permissions on passwd file

Don't you need the Mail service running to have apps like Server Monitor send email notifications? - Also for hosted sites that use the sendmail function you need a service running to get the emails sent.
Really you are not hosting a Mail server. It is open, but there is no incoming and if you only accept SMTP relays from the local machine, there should be no issues.

What is a "logged in user" on the "Active Sessions" report in CF8 Server Monitor?

I was looking at the Active Sessions Report (The Chart View) and saw I have more "logged in users" than "active sessions".
I had expected them to be nearly the same.    It's on our Intranet where I log users in (using cflogin and cfloginuser) at the begining of their session and users should be logged when the session ends.
I couldn't find a detailed explaination of what a "logged in user" means.   There is a chance that the same user is logged into a nested application as well as the Intranet, but I don't think that is what I'm seeing.
I also don't see a way to get a list of what CF is counting as a logged in user. I can only see a way to get the total count.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff

Thank you Michael for the reply, but I don't think that is the issue.
When a user opens their browser on the intranet, a session begins and they are logged in (using the cflogin and cfloginuser).    If they close their browser, the session should hang around for 20 min. (per the server setting).   I am assuming this is still considered an "Active Session" since I can see this behavior in the report.
At first, the Active Sessions and Logged In Users are exactly the same.   When the sessions start to time out, the active sessions are reduced, but the Logged In Users remain the same.    Then, after a while, they start to move together. So I have more Logged In Users than Active Sessions.
I left the Server Monitor open last night and for most of the night, I had 0 sessions, but 57 "logged in users".   This morning, as people opened their browsers, the Active Sessions and Logged In Users moved together.   The gap of 57 looks consistent.
It looks like people are remaining logged in after their session ended.
I am really looking for a detailed explaination of "active session" and/or "logged in user" as used in the server monitor. It would be really nice to find a way to list the details about each item counted in the "logged in user" and not just the total count.
Thanks Again for your reply.
jsm

Server Monitor no longer working between 10.5 client & 10.4 servers?

I've been running Server Monitor 1.5f6 under 10.4.x on my desktop machine to monitor a dozen or so Apple Xserves running 10.4.x Server for ages (3 years?). Upon upgrading my desktop machine to Leopard the Server Monitor application no longer connects to any of the remote Xserves. They simply state "waiting for connection". I tried every "expert" diagnostic I can think of including deleting prefs, caches, adding & removing server entries, firewall off (on the server), etc. I also observed that upon quitting the application, it often produces a crash message instead.
So I tried what I thought would be the obvious fix of upgrading to the latest Server Admin Tools suite (downloaded from Apple, also v10.5) on my desktop which includes Server Monitor 1.5.1-- only to discover it does not work either.
If I boot back into 10.4, everything works again so I am 110% sure the problem is related to Leopard. The 10.4 servers can also monitor each other fine (as a test).
Now I've seen some similar reports in this forum about problems with the admin tools after 10.4.11 and such. But none of them clearly described IMHO the exact problem of using Server Monitor under a remote Leopard client to monitor a 10.4 Xserve.
Can anyone else confirm this problem? Am I missing something?

Wow, thanks for the article reference. Some times no amount of searching will uncover the hidden treasures.
So... not to be too dramatic but... what is Apple trying to do? PUNISH users that have not purchased any copies of 10.5 server? Why wouldn't they release a stand-alone Server Admin Tools installer like they have in the past? (They "forgot"???)
As it appears someone attempted the package extract approach (and it didn't work), can someone offer another solution?
p.s. Where is that number for my Apple rep... >:-( UNHAPPY!

Server monitor not working

Guys,
I have server monitor installed on a 10.5.8 client mini to monitor our 9 xserves and it works fine on all the older ones (all G4 or G5 xserves running tiger or panther) but will not detect any of the 4 new Intel Xeon xserves running 10.5 (mixture of .6 and .8). In each case it alternates between reporting "Software is not installed properly on server" and "CANNOTLOAD_BUNDLEERR".
I'm assuming this is something specific to 10.5 - some sort of SNMP setting or something perhaps? Obviously I've checked the passwords, I'm using root username/password for each one, all the servers are on and available, and like I say, it's working fine on the older ones.
Anybody had any experience with this and know the answer?
Further info: 3 of the servers (of which one is 10.5 and not working) are on the local network (local to the monitoring mini), the remaining 3 10.5's are each on other LAN's to which I have a currently working VPN. In each case the 10.5 machine which isn't working is on the same LAN as an older machine that is, so I know that's not the issue.

The Intel XServes seem to operate differently than the old G5 units when it comes to LOM. Mine has been giving me a bugger of a time getting Server Monitor to work properly, but right now it seems to be functioning..
Have you gone to Server Monitor on each of the Intel units and set up the "Configure Local Machine" from the Server menu? It should reject you if you enter the IP address of the Ethernet connection to your LAN - you have to use a different IP address. Configure only the information for 'Network 1' with the info for your LAN.
It may be purely anecdotal, but it seemed to start working for me after I enabled the firewall on the server, leaving all the ports on the LAN open and shutting everything down on the other address groups.
-Douggo

Does the Server Monitor work on PowerPC based machine (w/o LOM)?

I tried using the Server Monitor locally on a PowerPC G4 machine which has 10.5.1 server installed. I always get a "Failed to connect to server" error message, except if I try 127.0.0.1 with the original local admin, then I would get a "User and or Password" error.
Strangely, the username of the admin is M999, but if i type in "M999" as username, I would still get a "Failed to connect to server" error, while if I use "m999" as username, I get a user name password error. Either way, I couldn't use Server Monitor.
So I am wondering whether Server Monitor support machines w/o LOM at all? Is there an trick I should know about?
Thanks
Kenneth

Hi
There is no trick you need to know. Its really quite simple, Server Monitor only works with XServes. Apple added LOM capability when they rolled out the Intel XServe.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304870
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304896
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304897
For more informaiton. Hope this helps, Tony

Server Monitor doesn't see any sensors

Hey,
I inherited this Intel XServe and hot days like this make you take a closer look at the sensor data... all of which are invisible to SM.
SM doesn't see power, temperature, and blowers. Their respective tabs show one entry under Location: None.
I'm not using LOM but connecting locally via the loopback address.
OSX Server 10.6.4, Server Monitor 1.8(5)
Using 3rd party software like Temperature Monitor does read the temp sensor data fine.

The way that Apple recommends for the Xserve LOM reset and reboot is to unplug the box. The LOM is an embedded computer riding atop the network controller, and always powered on when the chassis has power.
For completeness, there's an ipmitool cold restart option for the bmc that might work, but (given the lack of documentation; Apple's recommended approach toward resets; this is a production environment; that haven't tried it) I wouldn't follow that approach.
I'd also look at a network-enabled remote power switch for this environment. Cheap, and saves you the trip to the DC or the call to the DC staff.

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