Owners Manual

System diagnostics and indicator codes
The diagnostic indicators on the system front panel display system status during system startup.
Topics:
• Power button LED
• Drive indicator codes
• System health and system ID indicator codes
• System diagnostics
Power button LED
The power button LED is located on the front panel of your system.
Figure 88. Power button LED
Table 12. Power button LED
Power button LED indicator code Condition
Off
System is not operating, regardless of power supply available.
On System is operating, one or more of the non-standby power
supplies are active.
Slowly blinking System is performing powering on sequence and iDRAC is still
booting.
Drive indicator codes
The LEDs on the drive carrier indicates the state of each drive. Each drive carrier in your system has two LEDs: an activity LED
(green) and a status LED (bicolor, green/amber). The activity LED flashes whenever the drive is accessed.
Figure 89. Drive indicators on the drive and the mid drive tray backplane
1. Drive activity LED indicator
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