Widget Watch: Leopard server monitor

Steve didn't make any note of Leopard server in his Keynote, which is a little sad. I can imagine all the engineers who work on the server OS waiting, hoping that Steve would note all the cool new features. Sadly, they were out of luck but unlike Steve I will mention one of the new features, namely this cool widget (which is mentioned at the end of this video). That's right you can (well, will be able to) monitor all sorts of neat stuff about your Leopard server right in the Dashboard. You can monitor things like how many people are connected to the iChat server, or the processor usage in the past hour. This gives sysadmins a nice thumbnail view into the health of their servers.

Kudos to the Leopard server team!

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Source: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/simplesetup.html

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Steve didn't make any note of Leopard server in his Keynote, which is a little sad. I can imagine all the engineers who work on the server...

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Grover

This has to be a remote widget, otherwise it would be useless. Add a widget to check the health of your Xraid as well and this is the best use of Dashboard since it's introduction.

August 08 2006 at 9:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JLL

Mac OS X Server had it's own session in the afternoon.

August 07 2006 at 11:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brett Berish

Having this widget check on the current computer is convienent, but what would be REALLY nice is if it checked on systems over the network or online. And while Apple's page nor you guys really say if it does that, I'm thinking that the server.example.com would suggest it does.

August 07 2006 at 5:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply