OS X Server - Technical Specifications

Technical Specifications

File and print services

  • Mac (AFP, AppleTalk PAP, IPP)
  • Windows (SMB/CIFS: Apple SMBX in Lion Server — previously Samba 2, IPP)
  • Unix-like systems (NFS, LPR/LPD, IPP)
  • Internet (FTP, WebDAV)

Directory services and authentication

  • Open Directory (OpenLDAP, Kerberos, SASL)
  • Windows NT Domain Services (removed in Lion Server, previously Samba 2)
  • Backup Domain Controller (BDC)
  • LDAP directory connector
  • Active Directory connector
  • BSD configuration files (/etc)
  • RADIUS

Mail services

  • SMTP (Postfix)
  • POP and IMAP (Dovecot)
  • SSL/TLS encryption (OpenSSL)
  • Mailing lists (Mailman)
  • Webmail (RoundCube)
  • Junk mail filtering (SpamAssassin)
  • Virus detection (ClamAV)

Calendaring

  • iCal Server (CalDAV, iTIP, iMIP)

Web hosting

  • Apache Web server (2.2 and 1.3)
  • SSL/TLS (OpenSSL)
  • WebDAV
  • Perl (5.8.8), PHP (5.2), Ruby (1.8.6), Rails (1.2.3)
  • MySQL 5 (replaced by PostgreSQL in Lion Server)
  • Capistrano, Mongrel

Collaboration services

  • Wiki Server (RSS)
  • iChat Server 3 (XMPP)

Application servers

  • Apache Tomcat (6)
  • Java SE virtual machine
  • WebObjects deployment (5.4)
  • Apache Axis (SOAP)

Media streaming

  • QuickTime Streaming Server 6 (removed in Lion Server)
  • QuickTime Broadcaster 1.5

Client management

  • Managed Preferences
  • NetBoot
  • NetInstall
  • Software Update Server
  • Portable home directories
  • Profile Manager (new in Lion Server)

Networking and VPN

  • DNS server (BIND 9)
  • DHCP server
  • NAT server
  • VPN server (L2TP/IPSec, PPTP)
  • Firewall (IPFW2)
  • NTP

Distributed computing

  • Xgrid 2

High-availability features

  • Automatic recovery
  • File system journaling
  • IP failover
  • Software RAID
  • Disk space monitor

File systems

  • HFS+ (journaled, case sensitive and case insensitive)
  • FAT
  • NTFS (write support only available on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server)
  • UFS (read-only)

Management features

  • Server Assistant
  • Server Admin
  • Server Preferences
  • Server Status widget
  • Workgroup Manager
  • System Image Utility
  • Secure Shell (SSH2)
  • Server Monitor
  • RAID Utility
  • SNMPv3 (Net-SNMP)

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