Chapter 3 Maintaining the Server

Status LEDs and Buttons

Table 3-1

Front-Panel LEDs States

 

 

 

 

 

LED Name

 

State

 

 

 

Hard drive activity

Off—There is no hard drive in the hard drive tray (no access, no fault).

 

 

Green—The hard drive is ready.

 

 

Green, blinking—The hard drive is reading or writing data.

 

 

 

Hard drive fault

 

Off—The hard drive is operating properly.

 

 

Amber—This hard drive has failed.

 

 

Amber, blinking—The device is rebuilding.

 

 

Power button/Power status LED

Off—There is no AC power to the server.

 

 

Amber—The server is in standby power mode. Power is supplied only to the CIMC

 

 

and some motherboard functions.

 

 

Green—The server is in main power mode. Power is supplied to all server

 

 

components.

 

 

 

Identification

 

Off—The Identification LED is not in use.

 

 

Blue—The Identification LED is activated.

 

 

 

System status

 

Green—The server is running in normal operating condition.

 

 

Green, blinking—The server is performing system initialization and memory check.

 

 

Amber, steady—The server is in a degraded operational state. For example:

 

 

Power supply redundancy is lost.

 

 

CPUs are mismatched.

 

 

At least one CPU is faulty.

 

 

At least one DIMM is faulty.

 

 

At least one drive in a RAID configuration failed.

 

 

Amber, blinking—The server is in a critical fault state. For example:

 

 

Boot failed.

 

 

Fatal CPU and/or bus error is detected.

 

 

Server is in an over-temperature condition.

 

 

 

Fan status

 

Green—All fan modules are operating properly.

 

 

Amber, steady—One fan module has failed.

 

 

Amber, blinking—Critical fault; two or more fan modules have failed.

 

 

Temperature status

Green—The server is operating at normal temperature.

 

 

Amber, steady—One or more temperature sensors have exceeded a warning

 

 

threshold.

 

 

Amber, blinking—One or more temperature sensors have exceeded a critical

 

 

threshold.

 

 

 

 

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