Server Monitor

Server Monitor is Apple's remote server monitoring application, part of the discontinued Mac OS X Server. It communicates with the hwmond hardware monitoring daemon present on Mac servers. Server Monitor is also an IPMI 2.0-based tool for communicating with a remote baseboard management controller (BMC) that implements their lights-out management (LOM) system. LOM is only supported on Xserve models released after 2006, not on Power Macs sold as servers. LOM enables power management even if the Xserve is off, and even if it lacks an installed operating system. Server Monitor can be configured to send notifications by email when a server encounters a problem, which requires the application to be running; the remote servers can also send these emails by themselves through hwmond.

Server Monitor

Developer(s)	Apple Computer Inc.
Stable release	1.1.2.1 / 2006-08-07
Operating system	Mac OS X Server
Type	Remote administration
License	Proprietary

References

• Dilger, Daniel Eran (13 October 2009). Snow Leopard Server. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 285–295. ISBN 978-0-470-60425-0.
• Laurence, Andrew T. "Xserve". Macworld. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
• Marczak, Edward R. (16 April 2010). Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Advanced System Administration v10.5. Pearson Education. pp. 206–212. ISBN 978-0-13-210407-4.
• Mitchell, Dave (27 April 2009). "Apple Xserve review". ITPro. Retrieved 16 May 2023.

External links

• Mac OS X server page
• support.apple.com: TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software