Owners Manual

About your system
The Dell Storage NX3230 is a rack system that supports up to two processors based on the Intel Haswell E5-2600 v3 processor family, up
to 24 DIMMs, and storage capacity up to 12 internal, hot-swappable 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state drives (SSDs).
Topics:
• Back-panel features and indicators
• Front-panel features and indicators
• Diagnostic indicators on the front panel
• Drive indicator codes
• iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes
• NIC indicator codes
• Power supply unit indicator codes
• Locating Service Tag of your system
Back-panel features and indicators
Figure 1. Back-panel features and indicators
Table 1. Back-panel features and indicators
Item Indicator, button, or connector Icon Description
1 System identification button The identification buttons on the front and back panels can be used
to locate a particular system within a rack.
When one of these buttons is pressed, the system status indicator
on the back flashes until one of the buttons is pressed again.
Press to toggle the system ID on and off.
If the system stops responding during POST, press and hold the
system ID button for more than five seconds to enter BIOS progress
mode.
To reset iDRAC (if not disabled in F2 iDRAC setup), press and hold
the button for more than 15 seconds.
2 System identification connector Connects the optional system status indicator assembly through the
optional cable management arm.
3 iDRAC8 Enterprise port Dedicated management port.
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