Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 63)

Administering Your Server 63
m The system identifier lights on the front and back of an Xserve server light when service is
required. Use Server Monitor to understand why the lights are on. You can also turn the
lights on to identify a particular Xserve server in a rack of servers by selecting the server
and clicking “system identifier light on” on the Info tab.
m You can set Server Monitor to notify you by email when an Xserve server’s status changes.
For each server, you set up the conditions that you want notification about. The email
message can come from Server Monitor or from the server.
m Server Monitor keeps logs of Server Monitor activity for each Xserve server. (The logs do
not include system activity on the server.) The log shows, for example, the times Server
Monitor attempted to contact the server, and whether a connection was successful. The
log also shows server status changes. You can also use Server Monitor to get an Apple
System Profiler report on a remote server.
Streaming Server Admin
To set up and manage QTSS, you use the Web-based Streaming Server Admin program.
Streaming Server Admin lets you easily create and serve playlists, customize general settings,
monitor connected users, view log files, manage user and bandwidth usage, and relay a
stream from one server to another for scalability.
To use Streaming Server Admin:
1 From Mac OS X Server, click the Streaming Server Admin icon in the Dock, then go to step 3.
Alternatively, from a server with QTSS installed, open a Web browser. You can also use a Web
browser from a remote Mac OS X computer.
2 Enter the URL for your Streaming Server Admin.
For example, myserver.com:1220
Replace “myserver.com” with the name of your Streaming Server computer. 1220 is the
port number.
3 The first time you run Streaming Server Admin, the Setup Assistant prompts you for your
user name and password.
To display online help information about using Streaming Server Admin, setting up secure
administration (SSL), and setting up your server to stream hinted media, click the question
mark button in the application. Information about QTSS is also available at the QuickTime
Web site:
www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/