Apple Mac OS X Server (Version 10.6 Snow Leopard) User Manual
Mac os x server
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Mac OS X Server Advanced Server Administration
- Contents
- Preface: About This Guide
- Chapter 1: System Overview and Supported Standards
- Chapter 2: Planning Server Usage
- Determining Your Server Needs
- Determining Whether to Upgrade or Migrate
- Setting Up a Planning Team
- Identifying Servers to Set Up
- Determining Services to Host on Each Server
- Defining a Migration Strategy
- Upgrading and Migrating from an Earlier Version of Mac OS X Server
- Migrating from Windows
- Defining an Integration Strategy
- Defining Physical Infrastructure Requirements
- Defining Server Setup Infrastructure Requirements
- Minimizing the Need to Relocate Servers After Setup
- Defining Backup and Restore Policies
- Chapter 3: Administration Tools
- Chapter 4: Enhancing Security
- About Physical Security
- About Network Security
- About File Security
- About Authentication and Authorization
- About Certificates, SSL, and Public Key Infrastructure
- Certificate Manager in Server Admin
- Readying Certificates
- Managing Certificates
- Using Certificates
- SSH and SSH Keys
- Administration Level Security
- Setting Administration Level Privileges
- Service Level Security
- Security Best Practices
- Password Guidelines
- Creating Complex Passwords
- Chapter 5: Installation and Deployment
- Installation Overview
- System Requirements for Installing Mac OS X Server
- Hardware-Specific Instructions for Installing Mac OS X Server
- Gathering the Information You Need
- Setting Up Network Services
- About the Server Install Disc
- Preparing an Administrator Computer
- About Starting Up for Installation
- Before Starting Up
- Starting Up from the Install DVD
- Starting Up from an Alternate Partition
- Remotely Accessing the Install DVD
- Starting Up from a NetBoot Environment
- Preparing Disks for Installing Mac OS X Server
- Installing Server Software Interactively
- Installing Locally from the Installation Disc
- Installing Remotely with Server Assistant
- Installing Remotely with Screen Sharing and VNC
- Changing a Remote Computer’s Startup Disk
- Using the installer Command-Line Tool to Install Server Software
- Installing Multiple Servers
- Upgrading a Computer from Mac OS X to Mac OS X Server
- How to Keep Current
- Chapter 6: Initial Server Setup
- Information You Need
- Postponing Server Setup Following Installation
- Connecting to the Network During Initial Server Setup
- Configuring Servers with Multiple Ethernet Ports
- About Settings Established During Initial Server Setup
- Specifying Initial Open Directory Usage
- Setting up Servers Interactively
- Using Automatic Server Setup
- Handling Setup Errors
- Setting Up Services
- Chapter 7: Ongoing System Management
- Computers You Can Use to Administer a Server
- Using the Administration Tools
- Working with Pre-v10.6 Computers from v10.6 Servers
- Ports Used for Administration
- Ports Open By Default
- Server Admin Basics
- Working with Settings for a Specific Server
- Understanding Changes to the Server IP Address or Network Identity
- Understanding Mac OS X Server Names
- Understanding IP Address or Network Identity Changes on Infrastructure Services
- Understanding IP Address or Network Identity Changes on Web and Wiki Services
- Understanding IP Address or Network Identity Changes on File Services
- Understanding IP Address or Network Identity Changes on Mail Services
- Understanding IP Address or Network Identity Changes on Collaboration Services
- Understanding IP Address or Network Identity Changes on Podcast Producer
- Understanding IP Address or Network Identity Changes on Other Services
- Changing the IP Address of a Server
- Changing the Server’s DNS Name After Setup
- Changing the Server’s Computer Name and the Local Hostname
- Administering Services
- Tiered Administration Permissions
- Workgroup Manager Basics
- Administering Accounts
- Service Configuration Assistants
- Critical Configuration and Data Files
- Improving Service Availability
- Setting Up Your Server for Automatic Restart
- Link Aggregation
- Load Balancing
- Daemon Overview
- Chapter 8: Monitoring Your System
- Planning a Monitoring Policy
- Planning Monitoring Response
- Using with Server Status Widget
- Using Server Monitor
- Using RAID Admin for Server Monitoring
- Using Console for Server Monitoring
- Using Disk Monitoring Tools
- Using Network Monitoring Tools
- Using Server Status Notification in Server Admin
- Monitoring Server Status Overviews Using Server Admin
- Using Remote Kernel Core Dumps
- About Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- About Notification and Event Monitoring Daemons
- Logging
- Additional Monitoring Aids
- Chapter 9: Push Notification Server
- Index