Apple Xserve Probes
InterMapper can monitor an Apple Xserve via the same facilities used by Apple's Server Monitor application. There are significant hardware differences between the various servers that require separate probes for G4 Xserve and G5 Xserve computers. The G4 Xserve also requires that the version of Mac OS X running on the machine be specified.
The probe sends a POST request via HTTPS to port 311. The response to this request is an Apple plist in XML form. The XML is then parsed by the probe to retrieve the information. Probes require an administrators name and password in order to access the information.
Monitored items:
- Info is general information about the server, such as amount of RAM and OS name and version.
- Drives is information about the various drives installed on the server, including the manufacturer, model, and capacity of each drive.
- Power is various measurements of the power supplies.
- Network information includes the hardware address, IP address, traffic information, and type of each interface.
- Temperature is the ambient temperature of the server.
- Blowers is information on the speed of the server's cooling fans.
- Security monitors the state of the security lock and the enclosure.