Unpacking the expansion rack and verifying that the ship group is complete

Procedure

  1. On each rack being installed, open the front and rear doors.
  2. If the expansion rack was shipped directly from IBM® manufacturing, remove the CE Unpacking Instructions from the Customer Engineer envelope that is taped to the front of the rack.
    Use the CE Unpacking Instructions to unpack the rack and prepare it for installation.
  3. Verify that all items in the ship group were received.
    1. The ship group comes in one or more large boxes on pallets. The customer might not allow the pallet and large box in their machine room. The ship group parts might need to be removed from the pallet and placed in a staging location.
    2. The side trim pieces that go between the racks are packed in the large ship group box.
      Note: For expansion racks with EMI seals, there are no side trim pieces. For more information, refer to Extending the rack to full height and attaching to the storage facility.
    3. If the expansion rack is from IBM manufacturing, the hardcopy listing of the ship group contents is shipped loose with the other parts inside the large boxes. If it is missing, check whether it was accidentally discarded along with the pallets and large boxes. An extra copy of the paperwork might be included in the CE Envelope.
    4. The official ship group listing of parts is included in the ship group.
  4. Place the ship group parts list in the document enclosure (left rear of rack 1). This list can be used for future removal of the storage facility.