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Front panel board – Gateway 7250R User Manual

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Front panel board

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Front panel board

The front panel board supports the LEDs and buttons accessible from the front
panel. The buttons and LEDs on the front panel board are shown and
described below.

Front panel connector connects the controls on the front panel with the
system board.

Power LED glows green whenever the system is turned on. The LED also
flashes when the system is in sleep mode.

Network activity LED lights whenever there is activity on the network.

System fault LED flashes whenever the system logs a failure.

Disk activity LEDs glow green whenever the hard disk is actively reading or
writing data and glow amber if the disk fails.

Backplane connector carries signals from the hot-plug backplane to the
control panel.

NMI switch allows a technician servicing the server to generate a
non-maskable interrupt (NMI) to help debug server errors.

Reset button lets you reset the server if it has become nonresponsive.

Sleep button lets you put the server into sleep mode to reduce power
consumption.

Power button turns the server on and off.

Power LED

Disk activity/fail LEDs

Reset
button

Power
button

Sleep
button

Network activity LED

Backplane
connector

Front panel connector

System fault LED

NMI
switch

ID0

ID1

ID2

ID3

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