Indicates
Color
LED Position
100 Mbps
Green
Left
1 Gbps
Amber
Left
Port active
Blinking Yellow
Right
There is also a group of six LEDs to the left of the WAN
and LAN
ports on the bridge card,
which is located in the upper right corner on the back of the appliance. The LEDs are arranged
in two columns of three lights, with the left and right columns being indicators for the LAN and
WAN connections, respectively. The rows of LEDs are interpreted as follows:
■
Bypass: If all of the top four indicator lights are on, the appliance is in bypass mode.
— 1000 (top): On indicates a 1000Mbps connection is established; blinking shows traffic; off
indicates no connection.
— 100 (middle): On indicates a 100Mbps connection is established; blinking shows traffic;
off indicates no connection.
■
Act/Link (bottom): On indicates a connection at any speed is established; blinking shows
traffic; off indicates no connection.
Hardware Alerts
Depending on the severity of the issue, the appliances will raise an alert in the administrative web
interface or via email, or both. Alerts advise that devices are not working normally or draw attention
to potential problems. In most cases, the alert will instruct you to contact Sophos Technical
Support.
Powering Down the Appliances Gracefully
Power down the appliance gracefully by either pressing the power button briefly, or by clicking
Shutdown on the System Status page. The appliance will safely shut down its software, and
the fans will stop. Remove the power cord before servicing the unit.
Note: You can also power down by holding the power button for four or more seconds, which
will force an immediate shutdown of the appliance; however, this may cause a corruption of the
file system. Avoid immediate shutdown except in cases when graceful shutdown is not possible.
2.1.1 Replacing an SM5000 or WS5000 Hard Drive
The SM5000 and WS5000 have four hot-swappable redundant SCSI hard disk drives in a RAID
10 configuration. If a single hard drive fails, the other disk in the RAID mirror takes over, and the
appliance continues to function normally. The failed drive can be removed and a replacement
drive installed without removing these appliances from the rack, powering down or even exiting
the administrative web interface. The appliance automatically detects the removal of a failed or
defective drive and the installation of its replacement. After replacement, the RAID controller
automatically begins rebuilding the new drive.
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