Free diagnostics software for mac

NetLinx Diagnostic and Control is software that allows full control of all NetLinx interfaces and all equipment connected to AXLink, ICSNet, or ICSHub.

Mac HelpMate 3.0 is designed to help your Mac run more smoothly. It can replace (with a subscription) a whole bunch of expensive products, including Timbuktu, eCare, and many others... Mac HelpMate contains powerful diagnostic features, such as the ability to run SMART (S.M.A.R.T) tests, check temperature and hardware sensors, inspected installed packages, repair permissions, clean caches, remove trash files, ASR multicast server, support for Growl notifications and much much more.

Mac HelpMate remains a free and useful program, but can be enhanced with a Mac HelpMate Professional account subscription that enables zero-configuration screen sharing. Its sister products, also currently included with a subscription are: Mac HelpMate ZIRO, Win HelpMate to control Windows Computers, and Auto HelpMate which allows a subscriber to initiate a screen sharing session from a web page. Many consultants have asked over the last year months about personalized copies of Mac HelpMate and Win HelpMate for their customers as well as the ability to initiate screen sharing with no one logged into the computer, and I am happy to say it's now a reality - desktop control/screen sharing through firewalls with no extra router configuration. Help anyone, anywhere, even behind inside corporate networks. The client, user or customer just downloads a subscriber's personalized copy, shares their screen, and in less than 45 seconds, they can control the remote computer.

In recent tests, Mac HelpMate easily handled remote control of a system with two 30-inch Cinema Displays over a DSL connection. To share or control a Mac there's nothing to install on the client machine outside of Mac HelpMate itself (you can even run it off of the Disk Image) and no admin password is required to initiate sharing or control. An account subscription is needed for the remote control/application and branding to work as well as the email alerts over an alternate SMTP port so that people who have ISPs that block port 25 can still alert you.

Major Features:

1. Mac HelpMate
   
   • Zero-config screen sharing through firewalls and routers by invitation for unlimited client installations (no port forwarding)
   • Mac HelpMate ZIRO (Zero Interaction Roll Out) for one-click screen sharing by emailed link or web site link with no preinstallation required
   • Mac HelpMate Widget for one-click screen sharing
   • Custom application branding to reinforce your company, school, or consultant support services
   • Unlimited installable proactive alterts for kernel panics, S.M.A.R.T, low disk space, Time Machine backup failures and low memory via zero-config email (no SMTP setup or authentication required) to up to five email addresses at a time
   • 200 diagnostic, troubleshooting, and performance optimization items all in an application with your company's logo
   • 40% faster than Apple Remote Desktop over the internet - includes built-in viewer with screen scaling
   • 128-bit AES encryption - unbreakable security used by the US Military and FBI
   • Supports Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6
   • Use the built-in Viewer or the Mac OS X Screen Sharing Application
   • Screen Sharing Application provides support for Macs with multiple monitors
   • Screen Sharing Applications supports fast user switching
   • Connect to remote computers over Bonjour
   • Use Bonjour to access the CLI from Terminal on the remote machine to run commands, update software, and do diagnostics in the background
   • Zero-config file sharing that respects Mac OS X permissions and application bundles
2. Auto HelpMate
   • Up to 100 Auto HelpMate Pro auto-activation computer registrations for one low price (Mac HelpMate subscription required)
   • Unlimited Auto HelpMate Standard registrations
   • Computer hardware asset information for Auto HelpMate computers
   • Warranty expiration asset information for Auto HelpMate computers
   • Auto-activated screen sharing - no user interaction or invitation required
   • Excellent for managing file servers, backup servers, and web servers
   • Great for managing kiosks and interactive or electronic displays (Plasma and LCD TV)
   • Perfect for monitoring long processes such as data recovery or image creation
   • Use to control a machine running Apple Remote Desktop inside a closed network
   • Password-protected groups for delegation of remote access
   • Alerts framework allows for alerting designated account, group, and site recipients, as well as arbitrary recipients
   • Up / down and online / offline alerts
   • AppleCare warrantly expiration alerts
   • IP change alerts for mobile computers (theft retention)
   • Asset management (stores and updated a complete Apple System Profiler Report for each machine)
   • Asset reporting - export a tab delimited summary of asset, purchase and warranty status for selected computers or all computers
   • Update software from connection managers
3. Win HelpMate
   • Zero-config screen sharing through firewalls and routers by invitation for unlimited client installations (no port forwarding)
   • Custom application branding to reinforce your company, school, or consultant support services
   • Full cross-platform interoperability with Mac HelpMate and Auto HelpMate
   • Supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista

Do you have a nice new portable music player in your pocket? Or perhaps a flash drive or portable hard drive? Why not turn it into a Mac OS X diagnostic, repair, recovery, and maintenance tool? With SubRosaSoft DasBoot its easy.

DasBoot allows you to take any third party boot CD (such as those shipped by SubRosaSoft.com Inc, Prosoft Engineering Inc, Alsoft Inc, or Micromat Inc) and quickly create a bootable diagnostic device that contains any of your own utilities that you may wish to install.

You can use your portable music player to boot, check, maintain, and repair Mac OS X computers* as needed without erasing it and taking away your ability to play music or use your device as you always have.

With the help of DasBoot you get to carry all the tools youll need in your shirt pocket. But unlike expensive third party alternatives, youll have plenty of space left over for a multitude of additional utilities as well as ample drive space when you need to recover data.

DasBoot allows you to run data recovery applications such as FileSalvage, diagnostic and repair applications, and much more, all from your MP3 player, portable hard drive or flash drive.

SubRosaSoft DasBoot gives you the power to create and maintain your own pocket-sized toolkit for your Mac - exactly the way you want - on one portable device and its totally free!! Just plug it in and all your tools will be at your fingertips.

If you want a forensically sound boot device then please use the MacForensicsLab boot CD. This boot CD is specifically modified for forensics use in that it disables the portions of the operating system that can effect your investigation. In doing so it will effect the operation of non-forensics based tools in order to stop them altering your evidence.

DasBoot has been tested with the following disk utilities and data recovery tools, but will also run many others; CopyCatX, FileSalvage, MacForensicsLab, VolumeWorks, Drive Genius, Data Rescue II, DiskWarrior, Apple Disk Utility, and TechTool Pro.

Diagnostic Utility Statistics is a standalone Macintosh program that calculatesdiagnostic efficiency statistics: sensitivity, specificity, false positive rate, false negative rate, positive and negative predictive power, odds ratio, Kappa, etc.

Source : RealBasic.

Apple OS X Server Admin Tools contains remote administration tools, documentation, and utilities that you can install on a computer other than your server.
Apple OS X Server Admin Tools major features:

- Installers
The Server Administration Software installer package contains tools for remote server administration. These applications require Mac OS X version 10.5 or later. If you received this administration tools disc with an Xserve, the Apple Xserve Diagnostics software is also available for diagnosing certain Xserve hardware issues.
- Server Assistant
Use the Server Assistant application to install or set up Mac OS X Server on a remote computer.Server Assistant is primarily used for the set up of Xserve systems without an attached display. Server Preferences and Server Status widget The Server Preferences application and Server Status widget are for remote administration and monitoring of your server when set up in either the standard or workgroup server con?gurations.
- Server Admin
The Server Admin application is for remote administration of one or more servers. It can be used to manage ?le share points, con?gure service settings, monitor server activity, and provide detailed logging information for each of the running services.
- Server Monitor
Server Monitor is for the remote monitoring and management of one or more Xserve systems.
- Workgroup Manager
Use Workgroup Manager to remotely manage users, groups, and computer accounts in advanced server deployments. Workgroup Manager is also used to set and manage preferences for Mac OS X users.
- System Image Utility
The System Image Utility application is for the creation and customization of NetBoot and NetInstall images.
- Xgrid Admin
The Xgrid Admin application allows administrators to remotely manage clusters and monitor the activity of controllers, agents, and the status of jobs on the grid.
- QuickTime Broadcaster
Use QuickTime Broadcaster along with QuickTime Streaming Server to produce professional-quality live events. The QuickTime Broadcaster application can be used to capture live audio and video streams and transmit them to QuickTime Streaming Server for redistribution.
- Documentation
Mac OS X Server includes onscreen help and a suite of orientation and administrative guides. The Getting Started guide in PDF format can be found in the Documentation folder.

Enhancements
- Installers - The Server Administration Software installer package contains tools for remote server administration. These applications require Mac OS X version 10.5 or later. If you received this administration tools disc with an Xserve, the Apple Xserve Diagnostics software is also available for diagnosing certain Xserve hardware issues.
- Server Assistant - Use the Server Assistant application to install or set up Mac OS X Server on a remote computer.Server Assistant is primarily used for the set up of Xserve systems without an attached display. Server Preferences and Server Status widget The Server Preferences application and Server Status widget are for remote administration and monitoring of your server when set up in either the standard or workgroup server con?gurations.
- Server Admin - The Server Admin application is for remote administration of one or more servers. It can be used to manage ?le share points, con?gure service settings, monitor server activity, and provide detailed logging information for each of the running services.
- Server Monitor - Server Monitor is for the remote monitoring and management of one or more Xserve systems.
- Workgroup Manager - Use Workgroup Manager to remotely manage users, groups, and computer accounts in advanced server deployments. Workgroup Manager is also used to set and manage preferences for Mac OS X users.
- System Image Utility - The System Image Utility application is for the creation and customization of NetBoot and NetInstall images.
- Xgrid Admin - The Xgrid Admin application allows administrators to remotely manage clusters and monitor the activity of controllers, agents, and the status of jobs on the grid.
- QuickTime Broadcaster - Use QuickTime Broadcaster along with QuickTime Streaming Server to produce professional-quality live events. The QuickTime Broadcaster application can be used to capture live audio and video streams and transmit them to QuickTime Streaming Server for redistribution.
- Documentation - Mac OS X Server includes onscreen help and a suite of orientation and administrative guides. The Documentation folder contains the Getting Started guide in PDF format.

Crossroads is a daemon that basically accepts TCP connections at preconfigured ports, and given a list of back ends distributes each incoming connection to one of the back ends, so that a client request is served.
Additionally, Crossroads maintains an internal administration of the back end connectivity: if a back end isnt usable, then the client request is handled using another back end.
Crossroads will then periodically check whether a previously not usable back end has come to life yet. Also, Crossroads can select back ends by estimating the load, so that balancing is achieved.
Using this approach, Crossroads serves as load balancer and fail over utility. Crossroads will very likely not be as reliable as hardware based balancers, since it always will require a server to run on. This server, in turn, may become a new Single Point of Failure (SPOS).
However, in situations where cost efficiency is an issue, Crossroads can be a good choice.
Furthermore, crossroads can be deployed in situations where a hardware based balancing already exists and augmenting service reliability is needed. Or, crossroads may be run off a diskless system, which again improves reliability of the underlying hardware.
This document describes how to use crossroads, how to configure it in order to increase the reliability of your systems, and how to compile the program from its sources.

Enhancements
- This version fixes a number of bugs, features a rewrite of the "stored-ip" dispatcher, introduces counting of back end errors for diagnostic purposes, and features updated documentation.