Front panel board

The front panel board supports the LEDs and buttons accessible from the front panel. The buttons and LEDs on the front panel board are shown and described below.

Reset button

Network activity LED

Power LED

 

System fault LED

 

Hard drive activity LED

 

Sleep button

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NMI switch

Front panel connector

Power button

Reset button lets you reset the server if it has become nonresponsive.

system fault LED flashes whenever the server logs a failure.

Network activity LED lights whenever there is activity on the network.

Hard drive activity LED glows green whenever a hard drive is actively reading or writing data and glows amber if a drive fails.

Power LED glows green whenever the server is turned on. The LED also flashes when the server is in sleep mode.

Sleep button lets you put the server into sleep mode to reduce power consumption.

Power button turns the server on and off.

Front panel connector connects the controls on the front panel with the system board.

NMI switch allows a technician servicing the server to generate a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) to help debug server errors.

16System Features