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4 Powering Up for the First Time
This chapter covers covers the procedure for booting up the system for the first time.
4.1 Power-Up
Behavior
The behavior of the system when powered up is described below.
1. Cooling fans start speeding up as soon as power is applied to the system.
2. Power LEDs of both CPU and switch nodes turn ON (green).
3. CPU nodes start booting up: The status LED turns ON (red), indicating BIOS POST
status. After BIOS POST is completed, the status LED changes from red to green,
Indicating system status
Note:
The BMC Watchdog timeout will turn off the status LED. If the BMC watchdog
is not enabled, the green status LED will stay on.
4. After a few seconds, the switch node A/S LED turns ON (steady or blinking)
indicating CM Active/Standby status.
