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Firepower 7000 and 8000 Series Installation Guide
Chapter 7 Hardware Specifications
Firepower 7000 Series Devices
The front panel of the chassis houses LEDs, which display the system’s operating state. The following
table describes the LEDs on the front panel.
The following table describes the conditions under which the system status LEDs might be lit.
Table 7-3
Firepower 70xx Family Front Panel LEDs
LED
Description
Reset button
Allows you to reboot the appliance without disconnecting it from the power supply.
System status
Indicates the system status:
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A green light indicates the system is powered up and operating normally, or powered down
and attached to AC power.
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An amber light indicates a system fault.
See
for more information.
Hard drive activity
Indicates the hard drive status:
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A blinking green light indicates the fixed disk drive is active.
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If the light is off, there is no drive activity or the system is powered off.
System ID
When pressed, the ID button displays a blue light, and a blue light is visible at the rear of the
chassis.
Power button and LED
Indicates whether the appliance has power:
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A green light indicates that the appliance has power and the system is on.
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No light indicates the system is shut down or does not have power.
Table 7-4
Firepower 70xx Family System Status
Condition
Description
Critical
Any critical or non-recoverable threshold crossing associated with the following events:
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temperature, voltage, or fan critical threshold crossing
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power subsystem failure
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system inability to power up due to incorrectly installed processors or processor
incompatibility
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critical event logging errors, including System Memory Uncorrectable ECC error and
fatal/uncorrectable bus errors, such as PCI SERR and PERR
Non-critical
A non-critical condition is a threshold crossing associated with the following events:
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temperature, voltage, or fan non-critical threshold crossing
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Set Fault Indication command from system BIOS; the BIOS may use the command to
indicate additional, non-critical status such as system memory or CPU configuration
changes
Degraded
A degraded condition is associated with the following events:
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one or more processors are disabled by Fault Resilient Boot (FRB) or BIOS
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some system memory disabled or mapped out by BIOS
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one of the power supplies unplugged or not functional