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Dedicated servers - Get to know the OVHcloud Control Panel

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OVHcloud Dedicated Servers offer our customers an environment with resources entirely dedicated to their use. These servers are ideal for hosting websites, email, and a variety of other applications. You can manage all of your OVHcloud servers from the OVHcloud Control Panel.

 

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Instructions

Warning

NOTE: Some options shown below may not be available on Eco servers (RISE, Kimsufi, and So You Start).

From the OVHcloud Control Panel, select your server via the Bare Metal Cloud and Dedicated servers menus. From here, you can see further details about your service by clicking its name or by clicking the more options ... button and selecting Details.

You can also Filter your results and customize the Columns displayed.

Dedicated server list

 

General information

Once you have selected your server, you will be taken to the General information tab, where you will see several panels. Each panel contains further details about your server, such as hardware, service status, and more.

General information
Hardware
Service status

In the General information panel, you will see details about the name, operating system, and boot mode for your server. You can also see location-based information about your server.

From here you can:

  • Edit the name of your server
  • Install/reinstall an OS (see more)
  • Change the boot mode (see more)

To get the internal name of your dedicated server via the OVHcloud API, you can use the following call:

GET/dedicated/server

Dedicated dashboard top

If you scroll down further, you will see more panels.

Network
My offer
Tags

In the Network panel, you will find IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to the server. You can also navigate to the "IP" section of the OVHcloud Control Panel and set up reverse DNS. For more information about reverse DNS, please check out our How to Configure Reverse DNS article.

To find the IP section: In the OVHcloud Control Panel, select Network in the left-hand navigation menu. Then click IP. For information about Additional IPs, see this guide.

Dedicated dashboard bottom

 

Network interfaces

From the Network interfaces tab, you can manage OVHcloud Link Aggregation. To learn more about OVHcloud Link Aggregation, click this link.

Dedicated network interfaces tab

 

Secondary DNS

A Dedicated Server with OVHcloud allows you to leverage our infrastructure to host secondary DNS.

For more information about secondary DNS, please check out our How to Configure Secondary DNS article.

Dedicated secondary DNS tab

 

Interventions

Here, you view a history of the work (i.e., an intervention) that a data center technician has performed on your server. The type of work and when it was carried out will be listed. You can learn more about inventions in this guide.

Dedicated interventions tab

 

IPMI/KVM

If your server offers IPMI capabilities, you will see options to download a Java applet and/or HTML applet, which allows you to access your server via a remote KVM session. If IPMI is not offered with your dedicated server, this screen will be blank.

For more information about IPMI, please check out our How to use IPMI article.

Dedicated IPMI tab

 

Tasks

This tab will track various tasks performed on your server, such as hard reboots, changing the boot mode, etc. It is a high-level log to help you administer your server.

Dedicated tasks tab

 

Tags

The tags tab is where you can create and view your tags. To learn more about tags, see this guide.

Dedicated tags tab empty

 

Go further

Browse all the Dedicated Servers guides.

Browse the rest of the OVHcloud US documentation for guides on our other products and services.

Learn more about Dedicated Servers on the OVHcloud US website.