3Com Router 6000 Family

Chapter 1

Installation Manual

Preparing for Installation

II. LED and button

Figure 1-6Front panel of RPU2

Table 1-3RPU2 LEDs and the button

 

LED and button

 

Description

 

 

RPU

 

System operating LED. Blinking means CPU is in normal

 

 

 

operation; steady ON or OFF means CPU has failed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RUN

FAN

Steady ON means the FAN module is operating normally.

 

 

 

 

 

PWR1

 

Steady ON means the PSU 1 is operating normally, and

 

(green)

 

 

 

 

 

steady OFF means the PSU 1 is not present or has failed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PWR2

 

Steady ON means the PSU 2 is operating normally, and

 

 

 

 

steady OFF means the PSU 2 is not present or has failed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RPU

 

ON means CPU has received an alarm signal, such as PSU

 

 

 

 

or FAN alarm (due to overtemperature, for example).

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALM

FAN

 

ON means the FAN module is not present or its rotation is

 

 

 

blocked.

 

(red)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PWR1

 

ON means the PSU 1 has failed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PWR2

 

ON means the PSU 2 has failed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFF means no card is present.

 

ECARD (green)

 

ON means a card is present and initialized.

 

 

 

 

Blinking means data is being transmitted or/and received.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFF means no CF card is present.

 

CF (green)

 

ON means a CF card is present.

 

 

Blinking means the CF card is reading/writing data. To

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

prevent data corruption, do not remove the running CF card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESET

 

 

The RPU2 hardware reset button.

 

 

 

 

 

10/100/

LINK

 

OFF means no link is present and ON means a link is

(green)

 

present.

1000

 

 

Mbps

ACT

 

OFF means no data is being transmitted or received on the

 

interfac

 

 

 

interface and blinking means data is being transmitted

 

e LED

(yellow)

 

 

 

or/and received.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

III. Interface

The RPU2 provides a 10/100/1000 Mbps fiber-optic interface in addition to console port, AUX port, and 10/100/1000 Mbps electrical Ethernet interfaces.

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3Com 3C13880, 3C13840 manual II. LED and button, III. Interface, LED and button Description

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