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Brocade 300 LED Patterns During Normal Operation (Continued)
TABLE 1
LED Name
LED Color
Status of Hardware
Recommended Action
Steady amber (for
more than five
seconds)
Boot failed, the system is faulty.
Perform the following steps:
Connect a serial cable to the
system.
Reboot the system.
Check the failure indicated on the
system console.
Contact Technical Support.
Flashing amber/
green
Attention is required. A number of
variables can cause this status
including a single power supply
failure, a fan failure, or one or more
environmental ranges has
exceeded.
Check the management interface
and the error log for details on the
cause of status.
Contact Technical Support if
required.
Ethernet Speed No light
Port speed is 10 Mbps.
No action required.
Steady green
Port speed is 100 Mbps.
No action required.
Ethernet Link
No light
There is no link.
Verify the Ethernet cable is
connected correctly.
Steady amber
There is a link.
No action required.
Flickering amber
There is link activity (traffic).
No action required.
Port Status
No light
No signal or light carrier (media or
cable) detected.
Check transceiver and cable.
Slow flashing green
(flashing in two-
second intervals)
Port is online but segmented
because of a loopback cable or
incompatible switch connection.
No action required.
Fast flashing green
(flashing in half-
second intervals)
Port is online and an internal
loopback diagnostic test is running.
No action required.
Flickering green
(steady with random
flashes)
Port is online and frames are
flowing through the port.
No action required.
Steady green
Port is online (connected to external
device) but has no traffic.
No action required.
Slow flashing amber
(flashing in two-
second intervals)
Port is disabled (because of
diagnostics or the portDisable
command).
Verify the diagnostic tests are not
running. Reenable the port using
the portEnable command.
Fast flashing amber
(flashing in half-
second intervals)
Port is faulty.
Check the management interface
and the error log for details on the
cause of status.
Contact Technical Support if
required.
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