Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 Installation steps, overview
- 3 Important information
- 4 Hardware installation
- 5 Starting up and operation
- 5.1 Access to the drives (floorstand model)
- 5.2 Control elements and indicators
- 5.3 Switching the server on and off
- 5.4 Configuring the server
- 5.4.1 Configuring the onboard SATA controller
- 5.4.2 Configuring the SAS/SATA RAID controller
- 5.4.3 Configuring the server and installing the operating system with the ServerView Installation Manager
- 5.4.4 Configuring the server and installing the operating system without the ServerView Installation Manager
- 5.5 Cleaning the server
- 6 Property and data protection
- 7 Troubleshooting and tips
- 7.1 Power-on indicator remains unlit
- 7.2 Server switches itself off
- 7.3 Screen remains blank
- 7.4 Flickering stripes on monitor screen
- 7.5 No screen display or display drifts
- 7.6 No mouse pointer displayed on screen
- 7.7 Incorrect date and time
- 7.8 Drives reported as “dead” when starting system
- 7.9 Added drive reported as defective
- 7.10 Error message on screen
- 7.11 Expansion cards or onboard devices not recognized
- 7.12 Temperature warning
- 7.13 No effect of keyboard or mouse
- 7.14 Optical drive cannot read data
- 8 CSS components
- 8.1 Hot-plug components
- 8.2 Non-hot-plug components
- 9 Appendix: server specification
- Index

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Control elements and indicators Starting up and operation
5.2.1.3 Indicators on the control panel
ID ID button
Lights up (blue) on the front and on the rear of the server when the
ID button is pressed. Both ID indicators are synchronized.
Power indicator (two-color)
Glows green when the server is switched on.
Lights up orange when the server is switched OFF, but mains
voltage is present (standby mode).
Hard disk activity indicator (green)
Lights up green when an internal hard disk drive is accessed.
Global Error indicator (orange)
– Lights up orange if a prefailure event has been detected that
requires (precautionary) service intervention.
– Flashes orange if an error was detected that requires service
intervention.
– Does not light up if there is no critical event.
If the event is still acute after a power failure, the indicator is
activated after the restart.
The indicator also lights up in standby mode.
You can find more details on the indicated errors in the System
Event Log (SEL), on the ServerView Local Service Panel, on the
ServerView Local Service Display, in the ServerView Operations
Manager or via the iRMC S2's Web interface.
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