Activity LED flashes green when the hard drives are working. The following table describes what the
Status LEDs indicate:
LED Indicator
Description
Green
The hard drive is online.
Off
The hard drive is ready for removal from the recorder.
Note:
The indicator remains off until all drives are
initialized after the system is turned on. Drives are not
ready for removal during this time.
Two short green flashes every second
The system is identifying a new hard drive, or preparing a hard
drive for removal.
Flashes green, amber, then off
The hard drive is predicted to fail.
Four short orange flashes per second
The hard drive has failed.
Flashes green slowly
The hard drive is rebuilding.
Blinks green for three seconds, orange
for three seconds, and off for six
seconds
The hard drive rebuild has been aborted.
System Health and Identification Modes
In the front left panel of the recorder, you can switch between system health and system identification modes:
l
Press the
button to enable the system identification mode, which is used to identify a recorder
deployed in a rack with other equipment.
The blue indicator starts blinking.
l
Press the
button again to switch back to system health mode.
The blue indicator stops blinking.
For more information about the LED indicators, see
Resetting the iDRAC System
To reboot the iDRAC web interface without rebooting the operating system:
System Health and Identification Modes
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