Chapter 1 – Setting Up And Administering The Router

The LED status Panel provides the console port, indicates the status of hardware/software and can initiate a controlled reboot.

The LEDs are organized into three primary groups; the port group, GPS/PPP group and the Alarm/Power Supply group. The display possibilities are as follows:

LED Name

Description

 

 

LED 1-4

Ethernet port 1-4 is active when green

LED 5-8

Ethernet port 1-4 has link when green and failed when red

LED 9-12

WAN port 1-4 is active when green

LED 13-16

WAN port 1-4 has link when green and failed when red

LED 17-20

WAN port 5-8 is active when green

LED 21-24

WAN port 5-8 has link when green and failed when red

 

 

PPP-DATA

PPP Modem port is active when green

PPP-LINK

PPP Modem port has link when green

GPS-LOCK

The PTP card GPS system has satellite lock

 

 

ALARM

A Major Alarm exists when red

POWER 1

Power supply 1 working properly when green and failed when red

POWER 2

Power supply 2 working properly when green and failed when red

Figure 14: Meaning of LEDs

The software will cause the ALARM LED to become active for various reasons. Any condition that causes the ALARM LED to become active will activate the critical fail relay. The Web interface displays the alarms.

Pressing the pushbutton for more than five seconds will reboot the router.

Obtaining Chassis Information

The chassis displays the hardware inventory at boot time. This information is captured in the /var/log/messages file after boot. The Web Management interface home page displays the chassis serial number.

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RuggedCom RX1100, RX1000 manual Obtaining Chassis Information, LED Name Description