Joe-Ma Help with Unix, Apple, Web, Mikrotik and Cisco

A suggestions the first time you start it up make sure that the updates are not mirrored or enabled. In the Apple Server Admin tool select Software Update the select Settings you will see a general tab make sure that Automatically mirror updates from Apple and Automatically enable updates are not selected click save and then start the service. Once the service has started and everything seems fine and you have no errors in the software update log file select the updates tab and select the updates that you need or want to enable If you want to enable all of them that’s fin but only do a few at a time like 15 to 20 unless you have ample bandwidth available. As the server will go and download all the updates that are selected at the last glance I had that was about 4 GB Once you have setup and configured your Apple OS X Tiger server for Software Updates you can check out the below information If you have Apple Remote Desktop you can send a Unix command to change the software update URL. S...

So you have reinstalled or installed Apple OS X 10.4 server. And you have noticed that no matter what you do you can’t get the Apple OS X Server to talk to your Server Monitor application all that you see is “Waiting for response” where you should be seeing other info like the Drives Temperatures Fan Speeds etc. I have only noticed this on a 10.4 Server where I installed the Server in Target Disk Mode using Firewire. The Xserve is a G5 dual with no graphics card (also called a headless server) The server was installed via a G4 Powerbook. Anyway When the system installs it seems to check the hardware now because you have mounted the OS X Server Hard drive onto your other Mac (non Xserve) my guess is that it does not / can not probe the correct hardware, and since the Apple Powerbook is not a G5 Xserve it can not configure the hardware monitor properly. Anyway to get around this, first make sure that you are in fact connected to the IP address of the Apple Xserve and you don’t have and u...