10 Powering Up and Down
The Status LED
Your appliance is equipped with a variety of LEDs. One of them is the Status LED. It is either labeled
with a
heart symbol or the term Status. It indicates the appliance’s operational state by changing colors
between
green, orange and red and by changing between blinking and steady glowing.
The table below shows the different meanings of the different glowing states.
Table 2 Status LED Conditions
Color Glowing State Meaning Installation Meaning Normal Operation or ART
Off Off
Appliance is powered off or installation has not
initialized far enough for LED control when
installation is started.
Appliance is powered off.
Green Blinking Normal installation.
Appliance is either booting, shutting down or
performing a system update.
Green Steady
Installation was completed successfully,
appliance is halted for reboot or installation was
not yet initialized far enough for LED control.
Barracuda NG Firewall is up and running.
Red Blinking Error during installation.
An error has appeared preventing Barracuda
NG Firewall from entering the up state.
If no orange light available: appliance is in ART
mode.
Red Steady - Appliance is halted and may be disconnected.
Orange Blinking --
Orange Steady - Appliance is in ART mode.
Not all appliances support orange and/or red LED colors. Depending on the appliance type, the status LED might be
on by default and it might take some time during boot and installation to start either blinking or changing the color.
Furthermore, the status LED might blink at different frequencies.