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75Chapter 5 Managing Your Server
Using the Server Status Widget
You can use the Server Status widget to monitor the status of Mac OS X Server either
on the server itself or from another computer with Mac OS X Server or Mac OS X.
To use the Server Status widget:
1 Open Dashboard and look for the Server Status widget.
You can open Dashboard by clicking its icon in the Dock, or by pressing its keyboard
shortcut, which is usually the F4 key or the F12 key.
If you don’t see the Server Status widget in Dashboard, click Dashboard’s Open (+)
button and then click or drag the Server Status widget from the widget bar.
2 If you see the Server, User Name, and Password elds, enter the server’s DNS name or IP
address followed by an administrator name and password, and then click Done.
3 When the Server Status widget is connected to a server, it displays a graph and other
status information about the server and its services.
Monitor processor utilization, network load, or disk usage by clicking an icon below Â
the graph.