Chapter 3
Maintaining the Server
Table 3-1
Front Panel LEDs, Definitions of States
LED Name
Hard drive activity
Hard drive fault
Power button/Power status LED
Identification
System status
Fan status
Temperature status
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State
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Off—There is no hard drive in the hard drive sled (no access, no fault).
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Green—The hard drive is ready.
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Green, blinking—The hard drive is reading or writing data.
Off—The hard drive is operating properly.
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Amber—This hard drive has failed.
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Amber, blinking—The device is rebuilding.
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Off—There is no AC power to the server.
Amber—The server is in standby power mode. Power is supplied only to the CIMC
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and some motherboard functions.
Green—The server is in main power mode. Power is supplied to all server
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components.
Off—The Identification LED is not in use.
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Blue—The Identification LED is activated.
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Green—The server is running in normal operating condition.
Green, blinking—The server is performing system initialization and memory check.
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Amber, steady—The server is in a degraded operational state. For example:
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Power supply redundancy is lost.
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CPUs are mismatched.
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At least one CPU is faulty.
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At least one DIMM is faulty.
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At least one drive in a RAID configuration failed.
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Amber, blinking—The server is in a critical fault state. For example:
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Boot failed.
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Fatal CPU and/or bus error is detected.
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Server is in over-temperature condition.
Green—All fan modules are operating properly.
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Amber, steady—One fan module has failed.
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Amber, blinking—Critical fault, two or more fan modules have failed.
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Green—The server is operating at normal temperature.
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Amber, steady—One or more temperature sensors have exceeded a warning
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threshold.
Amber, blinking—One or more temperature sensors have exceeded a critical
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threshold.
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