Question & Answer
Question
How do you determine an alert from the LED indicators on the XGS and GX appliances?
Answer
The LED indicators on the front panel and on the network adapter ports of the GX and XGS appliances provide information that is related to the activity of the device, and can also report a failure or an alert.
The following tables include the information that is related to the meaning of each LED and color indicator:
Management Port (Network Adapter Indicators):
Protected Ports (Security Interfaces):
Power LED:
Hard Disk Activity LED:
The following tables include the information that is related to the meaning of each LED and color indicator:
Management Port (Network Adapter Indicators):
Management Port 1 & 2 | Left Green | Steady | Link status UP |
Left Green | Flashing | Link status UP and data that is transmitted or received | |
Right Amber | Steady | Link Speed 1Gbps | |
Right Green | Steady | Link Speed 100Mbps | |
Right Off | Off | Link Speed 10Mbps |
Protected Ports (Security Interfaces):
Protected Ports | Left Green | Steady | Link status UP |
Left Green | Flashing | Link status UP and data that is transmitted or receive | |
Right Green | Steady | Link Speed 1Gbps | |
Right Abber | Steady | Link Speed 100Mbps | |
Right Off | Off | Link Speed 10Mbps |
Power LED:
Green | Steady | Powered up |
Amber | Flashing | There is a power supply fault (redundant power supply) |
Off | Off |
Hard Disk Activity LED:
LED Color | State | Description |
Blue | Steady | There is activity on the disk |
Amber | On | There is a HDD or RAID fault |
Off | Off | No activity nor fault |
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