Admin Alert: Printing and Emailing a System i Rack Config
When requesting new hardware quotes for a System i, iSeries, or AS/400 server, your vendor will most likely ask you for a server garment rack configuration that was generated on the machine that you are upgrading. To alleviate confusion about this process garment rack, this column covers everything concerning rack configurations, including what a rack configuration is, why it's needed, and how to generate and send a configuration to your vendor.

What's a Rack Config?

A rack configuration (rack config) is exactly what it sounds like. It's a listing of all the physical components in the garment rack(or racks) that host your System i, iSeries, or AS/400 server. A garment rack config is a physical roadmap to your system. It tells the reader where the system units, system buses, adapters, IOPs, IOAs, disk drives, memory cards, and other components are located in each of your cabinets.

Vendors frequently request a rack config whenever they quote or order new hardware for your system. They do this so that they can determine a few basic items, including:

Can the hardware fit into your existing garment rack? For example, if you're ordering a fiber optic card to connect a new disk drive to your system, is there room in the rack for that card and where can it be installed?

It may be called the rack, but it's really quite gentle
Try a few weight-loss regimes -- even Gyrotonics can shed a few pounds
Sarah Petrescu, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, February 14, 2008
Lana Wilkie has me hooked up like a garment rack. Six plugs along my waist, midriff and hips jolt 400hz faradic waves into my muscles, while a Chi-machine swings my legs back and forth.

"It's equivalent to a one-hour brisk walk garment rack and 200 sit-ups," says Wilkie, zapping me again. It feels painless, but strange -- like a deep laugh.

Statistics say most people who make a resolution to get fit abandon plans quickly. Experts advise trying out a few new workout regimes because, even if you don't stick with them, you'll at least get yourself in the mindset of a healthy garment rack.

So, I start with Wilkie and the Eurowave inch-loss system, which guarantees I'll lose one to three inches in the first 20-minute session or my $10 trial is free.

"It's very rare that someone doesn't see any change garment rack," Wilkie says, measuring me. Half-an-inch tighter on the middle and hips.

The electro-muscle stimulation is one of the most popular services at Esteem Treatments Wellness Spa in Victoria, along with the MPower Vertical Vibration machine. Both machines work the body's core strength muscles garment rack, speed up weight-loss and curb cellulite.

"This isn't quick-fix weight loss," Wilkie says. "It's muscle stimulation ... We get elderly people who can't hold themselves up straight and we get skinny young girls who want to give their bums a garment rack."