About Blade Indicators and Buttons

Each Server Module (blade) has four LED indicators and a Power button. The following illustration of a Sun Blade 8000 Chassis shows the location of the blade LEDs and Power button.

Illustration Key

Item

Indicator Name

Color

Description

1

Locator, with integrated push button

White

This LED provides these indications:

  • Fast Blink – Identifies a specific blade in the chassis.

  • Off – The Locator function has not been selected.

2

Ready-to-Remove

Blue

This LED provides these indications:

  • Steady On – Lights when it is safe to remove the associated blade from the chassis.

  • Off – The Server Module is in operation and should not be removed.

3

Service Action Required

Amber

This LED provides these indications:

  • Steady On – Lights when there is a blade fault.

  • Off – The blade has no fault conditions.

4

OK

Green

This LED provides these indications:

  • Slow Blink (on/off cycle at 1 Hz) – Indicates the SP or BIOS is booting.

  • Standby Blink (on/off cycle at 0.1 second on, 2.9 seconds off) – Indicates standby mode (SP is on, blade OS is off).

  • Steady On – Lights steadily when the blade operating system is online and the blade is operating normally.

  • Off – The blade is not powered on.

5

Power button

The Power button provides these functions:

  • In a powered-on blade, when pressed and immediately released, the button invokes a graceful (OS aware) shutdown of the blade. If you press and immediately release the button again, the OS will be restarted.

  • In a powered-on blade, when pressed and held for four seconds, the button invokes a forced shutdown of the blade with no OS notification. If you press and immediately release the button again, the OS will be restarted.

  • In a powered-off blade, when pressed and immediately released, the blade is brought online and the OS is started.