blade rack: fibre and ethernet lights dark

[David Stephens_1]

I've got a blade rack, four blade enclosures and two power supply enclosures, with FC patch panels in front and ethernet in the back. After working fine for a couple years, suddenly NONE of the FC indicator lights are working, and one block of ethernet connector lights are out. For clarity, I'm referring to the lights next to each fibre transceiver and ethernet connection, that shows link status and, in the ethernet case, network activity. The change might have occurred when we went to the enhanced backplanes (to support bl45s) a couple months ago. The rack upgrade utility reports all components at firmware rev 2.30. Anyone seen this behaviour before? (A co-worker calls them 'idiot lights' but I find them useful for troubleshooting.)

[Oleg Koroz · Accepted solution]

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=PSD_EB040526_CW01

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[David Stephens_1]

Many thanks for the link, KOV!
That explains the FC lights. But I've still got one enclosure (out of four) that has no lights on the ethernet connections. Anyone care to theorize on that one?

[Oleg Koroz]

run all firmware Updates if possibly for switches, fiber cards, cubes, SFP

if Possibly swap around switches, Cube modules, SFP


http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductList.jsp?locale=en_US&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1005&refresh=true&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=1120361

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=501885&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=1113763&prodTypeId=329290

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locOsCat/69_82.html

[Steven Baillie]

I had the same problem, no ethernet lights on NICS 3/4 for one enclosure.

Lucky the power what being switched off as after the power was switched back on all the lights were working again.

I tried taking out the ethernet connections at the back and swapping them with other conntections, this did not help.

Upgrading firmware of the enclosures did not help.

the only thing was powering down the enclosure. (the whole rack was powered down but just turning off the power to the enclosure should do it.)



steven