The only difference between using an XServe instead of using a regular machine (say PowerMac G4) is that there are Server Monitor tools to monitor the Temperature, Drive Status, and physical internal conditions of the box(You can still use activity monitor to see processor performance and all that like on Mac OS X), which only works on an XServe because only XServes have the chips on the logic board which record things like that. It does NOT effect the operation of the server software in any way by not having those features available, however; so your PowerMac G4 will handle the task nicely. Thats what Apple was referring to on their site, but they do it in a way that is slightly vague, they want to sell XServes after all : ). In a side note, the operations manual apple ships with OS X Server shows a PowerMac G4 as machine in the diagrams.
Mike Garton On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Beth Phillips wrote: > From: "Brian O'Neal" <boneal at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: MacGroup: OS X Server Question > > I dont know of any NAV that has a OS X server requirement, > but I am not the last word either. > > > > Brian O'Neal > > > Brian, > > I never dreamed we?d need it either. The regular NAV doesn?t require > OS X Server, but the new Corporate version of NAV for Macintosh > contains an Admin Console that allows you to monitor and update NAV > across the network to multiple machines. In the documentation it says > this must run on a machine running OS X server. Our servers are all PC > based and I use Apple?s Remote Desktop to administer all our Macs from > my machine, so I haven?t had any experience with OS X Server. Glad to > know it will run on our old machines. Just wondered what the X Serve > was and if we really needed it as it was a requirement on Apple?s site > for using OS X Server. > -- > Thanks, > Beth > > > Fastline Publications Inc.?DISCLAIMER: > > This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. > > If you are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or > disclose to others, (ii) please notify the sender by reply mail, and > (iii) please delete this communication from your system. Failure to > follow this process may be unlawful. Thank you for your cooperation. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3138 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050221/e68ebeee/attachment.bin
