3 Interpreting LED activity

Interpreting LED activity

Each SAN I/O Module uses LEDs to indicate status. These LEDs are shown in Figure 5.

FIGURE 5 LED Locations

1 2

 

7

8

IOIOI

3

4

5

6

TABLE 4

Key to Figure 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location

 

Indicator

Color

Operation

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

FC (external)

green/amber

Note: LED meanings are not valid during boot, diagnostics,

 

 

port status

 

or POST.

 

 

 

 

Green:

 

 

 

 

Off (dark): No signal carrier or unlicensed.

 

 

 

 

Steady: Online normal active port but no port activity.

 

 

 

 

Flickering: normal active port (I/O activity).

 

 

 

 

Slow blink: Online but segmented.

 

 

 

 

Fast blink: Internal loopback.

 

 

 

 

Amber

 

 

 

 

Steady: Signal present but not online.

 

 

 

 

Slow blink or flash: Disabled port (less than two second

 

 

 

 

interval).

 

 

 

 

Fast (rapid) blink or flash: Error or fault with port (less than

 

 

 

 

1/2 second interval).

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

FC port x

green/amber

Amber on: 4 Gbit/sec FC

 

 

speed

 

Green on: 2 Gbit/sec FC

 

 

 

 

Both off (dark): 1 Gbit/sec FC

 

 

 

 

3 (status icon)

module

green/amber

Off:

and 4 (LED)

 

status

 

SAN I/O Module is off or power supplies for the Blade Server

 

 

 

 

or onboard DCC have failed.

 

 

 

 

Green:

 

 

 

 

No errors and all ports are ready for use.

 

 

 

 

Amber:

 

 

 

 

Steady: Boot-up state, port(s) offline, or in reset state.

 

 

 

 

Blinking (green/amber): One or more environmental ranges

 

 

 

 

are exceeded, or error log contains diagnostic error

 

 

 

 

messages.

 

 

 

 

Note: The LED might blink during testing.

 

 

 

 

 

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