Figure 1-9 Front Control Panel LEDs

UID/Locator

System

 

Power Button/LED

Button and LED

 

Health

Internal

External

Init

LED

Health

Health

Button

 

 

LED

LED

 

 

Storage and Media Devices

The server can contain up to eight hot-pluggable SAS disk drives and one DVD or DVD-RW drive. Storage and media devices have LEDs that indicate activity and device status. Hot-pluggable SAS disk drives also have an LED used to locate a particular drive.

Hot-Pluggable Disk Drive LEDs

The hot-pluggable disk drives have two LEDs per drive (Figure 1-10):

•Drive Status LED:

•Drive Activity LED

Figure 1-10shows the hot-pluggable disk drive LEDs.

Figure 1-10 Hot-Pluggable Disk Drive LEDs

Status LED

Activity LED

Table 1-5lists the hot-pluggable disk drive LEDs and states shown in Figure 1-10.

Table 1-5 Hot-Pluggable Disk Drive LEDs

Activity LED

Status LED

Disk Drive State

 

 

 

Off

Off

Offline or not configured

 

 

 

Solid green

Off

Normal operation; no activity

 

 

 

Flickering green

Off

Normal operation; disk read or write activity

 

 

 

Off

Flashing amber at constant 1

Offline, no activity; predictive failure

 

Hz

 

 

 

 

Solid green

Flashing amber at constant 1

Online, no activity; predictive failure

 

Hz

 

 

 

 

Flickering green

Flashing amber at constant 1

Disk activity; predictive failure

 

Hz

 

 

 

 

Off

Solid amber

Offline; no activity; critical fault

 

 

 

Off

Solid blue1

Offline; drive selected by locator function

Flashing green at

Off

Drive rebuilding

constant 1 Hz

 

 

 

 

 

38 Overview