We have 3 new Sun Fire X2100 servers at my current job. Just recently the status LED (orange) started blinking. The logs show fine and running a prtdiag shows everything up and running fine. Is there a way to turn off the blinking LED? I have gone over every piece of information I can find and have found nothing about how to turn this off once it has started blinking.
An option on the x2100 is the Integrated Lights Out Manager, or ILOM. The ILOM has noted some event, and will keep that light on until you acknowledge it.
Connect a dumb terminal or laptop running a terminal emulator to the serial port using a null modem cable. There should be a serial connector that came with the computers that you can use.
You log into the ILOM, then view and ack the event.
There is a whole huge manual on how to use the ILOM, which is basically why I don't use the ILOM.
We have plugged a dumb terminal up to it, configured it like the manual for ILOM says and we are getting nothing. There is only one Serial port on the back and that seems to get us no were.
One of the nics is in fact labeled net management, but that already is configured (as far as I know) as the production NIC.
This may be one of two issues:
- There's a know ILOM/nge driver bug in eariler releases of S10 x86 (pre 6/06).
- There's a know issue with an older firmware rev of the BIOS/LOM where the net management port hangs/drops out and triggers the blinking fault LED. Do you know what BIOS revision you are at?
Most times a mobo swap is NOT the fix. You may be making the problem worse because we have mobos in the supply chain with older firmware revisions.
On the X2100's I usually have my customers try:
- Moving the RAM in different slots
- Updating the BIOS/LOM firmware
- Running the PC-Check diags
... before I send a field tech out to do major surgery.
