Table 36. Interconnect Module LED Description

LED Name

Color

State

Description

 

 

 

 

Module Status

Green

On

Power is on, software functioning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off

Power is off or complete failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking

Power is on but diagnostics failure

 

 

 

 

Network

Yellow

On

Continuous activity on the port

Activity

 

 

 

 

Off

No activity on this port

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking

Normal activity on this port

 

 

 

 

Network Status

Green

On

Port assigned to a network

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off

Port isolated

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking

Fault detected on this network

 

 

 

 

Status

Green

On

Online

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off

Fault

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking

Normal operations

 

 

 

 

DIAG

Green

On

POST being run

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off

Normal operation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking

Error detected

 

 

 

 

Error

Green

On

Error

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off

Normal operation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking

Major error

 

 

 

 

DLOAD

Yellow

On

Download in progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off

Normal operation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking

Error detected

 

 

 

 

11.2 Power Requirements for Multiprotocol Interconnect Module

Certain 8260 modules will not completely support the inventory management scheme that has been employed with the media modules and daughter cards. Typically every 8260 module board contains an inventory EEPROM, which the controller module reads to determine the total power requirements of a slot (motherboard plus any connected daughter cards). In the case of the Multiprotocol Interconnect module, the I/O cards that connect to the module do not support the inventory management scheme. This is because these I/O cards are not populated with EEPROMs as other 8260 daughter cards. There is only one EEPROM on the Multiprotocol Interconnect module itself to report the power requirements of the entire module. The issue that arises is that there is significant variation in the amount of power these I/O cards consume as shown in Table 37. This requires that the user must be able to update the power requirements of the Multiprotocol Interconnect module to reflect the current I/O card configuration and ensure proper and accurate operation of the inventory and power management system.

Table 37 (Page

1 of

2). Power Requirements for Interconnect Module IP Cards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I/O Cards

 

 

 

Total Power Requirements (in Units)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+ 2 V

+ 5 V

-5V

+ 1 2 V

-12V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interconnect Module

 

-

30

4

1

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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