rx4640: Front system led flashing yellow...

[yanik.doucet]

Hi,

We have a small problem with one of the rx4640 servers. Its front system led keep flashing yellow.

The doc says: "Warning - system needs attention. Redundancy lost, component failure pending."

The system is doing well tho. How can I investigate further?

Thank you.

Yanik

[Sandy Chen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You could investigate with using the MP. Connect through serial console and then check the logs with the SL (show logs) command

Check these documents:

http://docs.hp.com/en/A9950-96009/A9950-96009.pdf

and

http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-4289/5971-4289.pdf

regards,
Sandy

[Luk Vandenbussche]

The easiest way to check this is through a webbrowser

http://ip-MPconsole

Here you have a graphical view off the errors

[Prashanth.D.S]

Hi,

It seems your system has some serious issue, OS might be up but there is every chance of system going down. Would recommend you to get intouch with HP immediately if you have a contract.

My suspects are either the powersupply or a fan.

Check the MP command outputs to confirm for any part failure.

MP:CM>ps

Example output:
===============
System Power state: On
Temperature : Normal


Power supplies State
-----------------------------------------------------------
Power Supply 0 Normal
Power Supply 1 Normal


Fans State
-----------------------------------------------------------
Fan 0 (System) Normal
Fan 1 (System) Normal
Fan 2 (Pwr) Normal

Best Regards,
Prashanth

[yanik.doucet]

thanks all, I'll look into it.

I can't use the web gui right now because I don't have a dhcp server in that vlan. I'll setup the lan config thru the rs232 connection and then see what's going on.

Yanik

[Hoff]

A yellow flashing LED can be "normal" for some situations, such as an event log that is filling up with dreck and noise messages. Or yes, it can indicate a potential problem with the box.

Check the SEL system event log and other such and see what complaint(s) the firmware has lodged. I've certainly triggered the LED when churning around for a sufficiently long time at EFI, doing things apparently not normally expected by the firmware designers.

For some console-level and some system hackery, I've triggered the red LED.

A serial connection into the iLO MP D-sub connection is easy to establish from a typical client box, given a serial cable. Or yes, you can use the network to access the iLO MP, if you have that configured.

[yanik.doucet]

The logs were at 100%. Nothing serious, I cleared it up and everything is well again :)

Thanks to all