congratulations on purchasing your new server. this product is designed to be mounted in a rack. once the server is installed in the rack, an administrator or other user can slide it open from the front to exchange or add components.

    among the distinctive hardware features of the server are

    1 one or two g4 processors with minimum operating speed of 1 gigahertz (ghz), with 256 kilobytes (k) of level 2 cache and 2 megabytes (mb) of double-data-rate (ddr) backside l3 cache

    2 up to 2 gigabytes (gb) of ddr synchronous dynamic random-access memory (sdram)

    3 system bus speed 133 megahertz (mhz) (at minimum)

    4 four apple drive module bays, supporting up to four hot-pluggable ata 100 hard disks, accessible from the front, with status and activity lights

    5 front panel with cd-rom drive; led status lights; power and system identifier buttons and lights; firewire port; and security lock for the enclosure

    6 back panel with one or two gigabit ethernet ports (auto-negotiating 10/100/1000 megabits per second); two firewire ports; two usb ports; serial port that supports rs-232 or rs-422 connection; and vga monitor connection

    7 cable-management arm to allow the unit to be opened without disconnecting cables

    8 two internal expansion slots for pci cards and one combination slot for either a pci or an agp card

    9 fault-sensing operation, with sensors to detect internal temperature, blower status or failure, power status or failure, and open enclosure

    among the services offered by mac os x server, included with the standard configuration, are file and print services for macintosh, windows, and unix clients high-performance apache web server, with integrated webdav and ssl world wide web application deployment platform quicktime streaming server

    1 ip filtering, dhcp, dns, and slp networking services directory services mail service

    2 macintosh management service

    3 netboot server for macintosh client computers that can start up from a server tools for remote server configuration and monitoring for detailed information about mac os x server and instructions for using it with xserve, see the other documentation that came with the server. the booklet quick start for xserve rovides an overview of those materials and their contents.