
Chapter 4
Replace Slammer Batteries
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The figure below, which shows a Slammer face with the bezel
removed, identifies the location of a Slammer battery.
Figure 15 Slammer battery location
The table below describes the status of the battery LED.
To allow battery replacement in a target Slammer CU, Guided
Maintenance first places the CU in conservative mode. In this
mode, the Axiom system does not depend on battery-backed
memory; instead, the system flushes cached data and
commits all disk writes to the storage array.
Table 11 Slammer battery LED status
Label
Color
Meaning
BATT FLT
Amber
Battery in this CU has failed.
Off
No failure exists.
Slammer front with bezel removed
Battery
Battery
fault
LED