Yes, all of the flashing lights and LCD displays are obvious but in this case I just used hard drive as an example and the Dell 1750's don't have LCD displays. A quick reboot into the Dell Diagnostic software gave me a memory log error about a correctable issue. I easily cleared the log out and rebooted into pfSense. I monitor all of our servers hardware with Nagios so I was trying to figure out if FreeBSD supported any of the Dell tools, SNMP or otherwise.
Thanks, Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Paul Mansfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Chris Bagnall wrote: > >> The flashing amber lights on the Dell servers typically indicate a > hardware > >> issue... > > > > Might be worth mentioning that a number of the Dell rackmount server > range have a flashing blue or amber light that indicates... nothing. You can > switch it between off/steady/flashing using a button on the front (usually > marked "i" - one assumes for "info"). There's an identical light at the back > of the machine which follows the same pattern. > > > > It's designed to make it easier to work out which machine you're > connecting cables to in a densely populated rack, and for something so > simple, it's very useful. > > > > there's also a light on each drive bay which can indicate a fault, or > can be made to flash under user control? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
