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Disabling the audible alarm – HP 3000 Enterprise Virtual Array User Manual

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You can mute the audible alarm by completing the following procedure.

Note:

Er

will be displayed in the alphanumeric display when an error condition is

present.

1. Press and hold the bottom pushbutton until the LED is On.

A muted alarm will remain off until a new error condition occurs.

2. To unmute the alarm, press and hold the bottom pushbutton until the LED is

Off. When a new error condition occurs, the alarm will sound.

Disabling the Audible Alarm

Disabling the audible alarm affects only the alarm on the disk enclosure. It does
not affect condition report displays on the EMU alphanumeric display or detection
of errors by Command View EVA.

Complete the following procedure to disable the alarm:

1. Press and release the bottom pushbutton until the alphanumeric display is Au.

2. Press and hold the top pushbutton until the alphanumeric display is a Flashing

on (Audible Alarm On).

Note:

When the alarm display is flashing, pressing and holding the top pushbutton

causes the display to rapidly change between

on

and

oF

.

Pressing and releasing the top pushbutton causes the display to select the next state.

3. Press and release the top pushbutton to change the display to a Flashing oF

(Audible Alarm Off).

4. Press and release the bottom pushbutton to disable the alarm and display Au.

The bottom pushbutton LED is now On.

Note:

A disabled audible alarm cannot sound for any error condition. To ensure that

you are immediately alerted to error conditions, it is recommended that the alarm mute

function be used rather than the alarm disable function.
If you must use the disable function, remember to re-enable the audible alarm as soon

as possible to ensure that you are alerted to errors.