Dell Direct from Development – PowerEdge MX7000 LED Device Status Manual User Guide

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Power Edge MX7000 LED Device Status

Users want to be able to look at the chassis and deduce its current health state when physically in front of the chassis. Most of the components that are present in the MX7000 chassis are able to display their current health

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state via LEDs.

Kristopher Gilly

Users also want to be able to accurately identify components in a chassis.

Shashwat Jnawali A useful feature to do this is the Identify function that can be activated

from the front panel, or remotely via the Open Manage Enterprise Modular GUI. This can be a very useful feature when you are managing a multi- chassis setup and want to remotely identify a particular device in the pool.

SUMMARY Some devices also implement their own specific LED behavior, for

example Power Edge MX5016s implement an LED feature that indicates

The MX7000 chassis and

mapping state. This document will cover these features.

modular devices in a MX7000 chassis are equipped with multi-

Management Module LED Behavior

purpose LEDs which can indicate the current health state

of the device, provide The Management Module (MM) is located at the rear of the chassis identification or implement (Figure 1) and contains two LEDs: Power LED (Green only) and Status

device specific features. LED/Button (Blue or Amber).

This whitepaper intends to Figure 1: Management Module provide a single point of comprehensive status

Status LED/Button (Blue or

information for LED behaviors

Amber) is on the left and

on Power Edge MX7000.

the Power LED (Green only) is on the right as shown by red highlights.

The Power and Status LED (color is dependent on status) states are as follows:

Healthy Chassis MM State Power LED State Status LED State Active LED ON (Green) LED ON (Blue-solid) Standby LED ON (Green) LED OFF Identify (Active) LED ON (Green) LED ON (Blue-blinking)

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