Table 1-4 Front Panel Controls and LEDs

LED

Function

States

Status

 

 

 

 

 

Manually powers the server

Off

No ac power

 

on and off.

 

 

Power Button

Green

Full power is on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow

Standby power is on

 

 

 

 

 

Helps locate a particular

Off

UID button is not activated

 

server within a rack of

 

 

 

Blue

UID button is activated

UID Button

servers. You can remotely

 

activate this button using

 

 

 

various system utilities.1

 

 

Init Button

Resets the system;

 

 

 

irrecoverably halts all

 

 

 

system processing and I/O

 

activity and restarts the

 

 

 

server.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provides information about

Off

System is off

 

the system status.

 

 

System Health LED

Green

Normal operation

 

 

 

 

 

Flashing amber

Warning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flashing red

System fault

 

 

 

 

 

Indicates the status of

Off

System is off

 

internal serviceable

 

 

 

Green

System health is good

 

components. This LED

 

maintains its state when the

 

 

 

Flashing amber

System health is degraded

 

system is in standby mode

 

(system power turned off

Flashing red

System health is critical

 

but ac power still applied to

 

 

 

Internal Health LED

the system). When the

 

 

 

internal health LED is lit,

 

 

 

the corresponding failed

 

 

 

component LED illuminates

 

 

 

on the diagnostic panel. See

 

 

 

Chapter 5 (page 139) for

 

 

 

more details on the internal

 

 

 

health LEDs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

External Health LED

Indicates the status of

Off

System is off

 

external serviceable

 

 

 

Green

System health is good

 

components. When the

 

external health LED is lit,

 

 

 

Flashing amber

System health is degraded

 

the corresponding failed

 

 

 

 

component LED

Flashing red

System health is critical

 

illuminates.

 

 

 

1There is an additional UID LED and button located on the rear panel of the server. Both UID LEDs illuminate when you activate either the front or rear UID buttons.

Figure 1-9shows the front control panel LEDs.

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