User manual

Hardware Basic Operation and Installation

Rev 1.2

Mellanox Technologies

4.1.1.5 UID LED Switch Identifier

The UID LED is a debug feature that will become available to customers in the near future. For

details please contact Mellanox Technologies support.

4.1.1.6 Port Connector LED

Above the ports are two LEDs one for the upper port and one for the lower port . The fol-

lowing table shows the port status according to the LED indication.

Table 6 - Connector Physical and Logical Link Indications

This LED when flashing orange shows port physical errors. Possible causes for this are:

•bad cable

• bad connection

• bad connector

•bad cage

4.2 Air Flow

These switches can come with two air flow patterns. The two patterns are

• Rear side inlet to connector side outlet

• Connector side inlet to rear side outlet

The air flow is specified in the product model number. See “Mellanox Part Numbering Legend” on

page 9.

4.3 QSFP Cable Power Budget Classification

All IS5024 QSFP switches are designed for active cables with a max power per module of 2.0W.

This is power level 2 according to the QSFP Public Specification.

LED Description

Off No link

Orange Physical Link up

Solid Green Logical Link up

Flashing Green Data activity

flashing speed ≈ data transfer speed

Flashing Orange A problem with the Physical Link