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NetInstall working on some systems, not working on others

I'm having an issue where my NetInstall setup works on some computers and fails on others. I am not able to diagnose the issue. I created an image of a Mac Mini and then created a NetRestore image using the System Image Utility found on Snow Leopard…
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How do you disable or uninstall NetRestore from a NetBoot server?

I'm trying to move from NetRestore to DeployStudio for my dual-boot Apple deployments, but I'm not sure how to remove NetRestore from my NetBoot server. When I NetBoot a client, it still launches NetRestore automatically and does not launch…
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Presenting Apple XServe RAID LUNs to XSan

I am working on a Final Cut Server setup with an associate and one of the things we need to do is setup XSan2 with two Apple XServe RAID units. I am able to get into the RAID Administrator and configure arrays etc, however regardless of the…
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Any Linux distro which is supported on EFI enabled XServe

I am looking into installing Linux on a test XServe machine and see how it goes overall. We have our entire infrastructure on OSX and would like to move to Linux servers. Is there any distribution which has good support for XServe? Google search…
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XServe Raid with Ubuntu 10.04 problems

I have an Apple XServe RAID connected via fibre channel to a Dell Poweredge R610. This server is mainly for hosting subversion repositories, and storing disk images. In the past 6 months or so we have encountered some issues with this setup where…
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Folders having multiple reincarnations on clients

We are running a Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.8 on a Intel XServe. Most of the data is stored on the internal disks. When clients (mostly Snow Leopard) connect to the server and use it normally for a while (storing files, saving to the server's…
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Running VMWare ESXi on Apple Xserve

So we're running VMWare Server running on Windows Server 2008 which we administer via the web interface. However it turns out the machine we're running it on has serious hardware limitations, most importantly it's restricted to 4gb of ram. We've…
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Mac OSX Server - Mac Mini to XServe Migration

If I build out a Mac OSX Server install on a Mac Mini and then when it's ready for production I image the disks to an XServe, is there any reason the resulting system won't just work? Assuming I'm able to keep the same IP address are there any other…
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How do I enable the serial port on an XServe G5 (10.4 Server)

I have my ZyXel USG 200 router's console port connected to my XServe, and I want to stream real-time logs from it to a text file on the XServe itself. I need the serial port to be set to 115200bps, N,8,1, no flow-control. The OS in place is Mac OS X…
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Tools for monitoring Xserve and Xsan

I'm looking for some software (preferably commercial, supportable and easy for non-techy users to use) to monitor a number of Apple Xserve servers running OS X 10.5, and running as an Xsan controller. Specifically I want to monitor: Xsan metrics…
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Remotely sync Time Machine drives

I have an Xserve that runs Time Machine to a local terabyte drive. I also connected my external terabyte drive for a time period and had Time Machine use it to establish the seed data. I plan to take my drive back home with me (out of state) and…
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Mount an additional Xserve volume with autofs on Linux

A few years ago I setup autofs on a RH Linux box to mount volumes from four XServes. I need to add a couple new volumes from these same Xserves so that I can access files from the Linux box. I've completely forgotten how to do this and haven't been…
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Attach X2Go to X Session ":0"

I don't know if I'm right in concept. But when I connect to a remote host (a cloud VPS) by X2Go, $DISPLAY variable echoes ":50", I need that variable equals to ":0" when I connect to that host. How can achieve this? Thanks in forward.
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Apple XServe not booting from anything (USB, CD) - Prohibited Sign

I have an XServe (Early 2008) which was working good before, however, I recently deleted all my raid drives because I wanted to recreate them. So now, I have nothing, no recovery partition or anything. I have 2 legal copy of Mac OS X Lion, and Mac…
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Monitoring memory (sharedm buffered, cached) for Xserve

I am trying to monitor detailed memory useage over time for MacOSX /Xserver. NetSNMP version 5.4.2.1 on MacOS 10.6 does not report the following mibs oid=".1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11" alias="memTotalFree" type="integer" oid=".1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.13"…
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