Users Guide

• Power Supplies
• Removable Flash Media
• Temperatures
• Voltages
You can view the status of the front panel of the managed system:
• For rack and tower servers: LCD front panel and system ID LED status or LED front panel and system ID LED status.
• For blade servers: Only system ID LEDs.
Viewing system front panel LCD status
To view the LCD front panel status for applicable rack and tower servers, in iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → Hardware →
Front Panel. The Front Panel page is displayed.
The Live Front Panel Feed section displays the live feed of the messages currently being displayed on the LCD front panel. When
the system is operating normally (indicated by solid blue color in the LCD front panel), both Hide Error and UnHide Error are
grayed-out.
NOTE: You can hide or unhide the errors only for rack and tower servers.
To view LCD front panel status using RACADM, use the objects in the System.LCD group. For more information, see the iDRAC
RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
Related links
Configuring LCD setting
Viewing system front panel LED status
To view the current system ID LED status, in iDRAC web interface, go to Overview → Hardware → Front Panel. The Live Front
Panel Feed
section displays the current front panel status:
• Solid blue — No errors present on the managed system.
• Blinking blue — Identify mode is enabled (regardless of managed system error presence).
• Solid amber — Managed system is in failsafe mode.
• Blinking amber — Errors present on managed system.
When the system is operating normally (indicated by blue Health icon on the LED front panel), then both Hide Error and UnHide
Error is grayed-out. You can hide or unhide the errors only for rack and tower servers.
To view system ID LED status using RACADM, use the getled command.
For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
Related links
Configuring system ID LED setting
Hardware trouble indicators
The hardware related problems are:
• Failure to power up
• Noisy fans
• Loss of network connectivity
• Hard drive failure
• USB media failure
• Physical damage
Based on the problem, use the following methods to correct the problem:
• Reseat the module or component and restart the system
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