Ongoing System Management

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This chapter shows you how to complete ongoing management for your systems, including setting up administrator computers, designating administrators, and maintaining service uptime.

Read the following sections as a basic introduction to Mac OS X Server management: ÂÂ “Computers You Can Use to Administer a Server” on page 124

ÂÂ “Using the Administration Tools” on page 126

ÂÂ “Changing the Server’s Computer Name and the Local Hostname” on page 144 ÂÂ “Adding and Removing Servers in Server Admin” on page 128

ÂÂ “Administering Services” on page 145

ÂÂ “Tiered Administration Permissions” on page 149 ÂÂ “Workgroup Manager Basics” on page 150

Computers You Can Use to Administer a Server

To administer a server locally using the graphical administration applications (in /Applications/Server/) log in to the server as a server administrator and open them.

To administer a remote server, open the applications on an administrator computer. An administrator computer is any Mac OS X Server v10.6 or Mac OS X v10.6 or later computer where the administration tools have been installed from the Mac OS X Server Admin Tools CD. See “Setting Up an Administrator Computer” on page 124.

You can run command-line tools from the Terminal Application (in /Applications/Utilities/) on any Mac OS X Server or Mac OS X computer. You can also run command-line tools from a UNIX workstation.

Setting Up an Administrator Computer

An administrator computer is a computer with Mac OS X v10.6 or Mac OS X Server v10.6 or later that you use to manage remote servers.

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Apple 10.6 manual Computers You Can Use to Administer a Server, Setting Up an Administrator Computer