18 VNX5500 Hardware Information Guide
System component description
Table 5 describes the Control Station LEDs.
Table 5 Control Station LEDs
LED Color State Description
System status/boot
(location 2)
Green On Power on/system loaded and
ready
Blinking Booting up
1
or system degraded
Amber On Critical, non-recoverable error;
system has failed due to:
• Themtrip asserted
• IERR asserted
• Non-recoverable temperature
threshold asserted.
• Non-recoverable voltage
asserted.
• Power fault/Power control
failure
Blinking Non-fatal alarm; system is likely
to fail due to:
• Critical temperature threshold
asserted.
• Critical voltage threshold
asserted.
• Critical fan threshold
asserted.
—Off Power off
System power/sleep or
standby (location 3)
Green On Power on
Blinking Sleep (standby)
—Off Power off
Internal hard drive activity
(location 4)
Green Blinking Hard drive access
— Off No hard drive activity
Onboard (integrated)
Ethernet NIC 1 and 2
(locations 5 and 6,
respectively)
Green On NIC link/no access
Blinking NIC link/LAN access
1. The system status LED flashes green while booting up.