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You can find the documentation for blade servers in the IBM Systems Information
Center, which is at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp.
To access the blade server documentation from this site, click Systems hardware →
BladeCenter information → Blade servers.
To determine which blade servers are compatible with the BladeCenter S chassis,
see the IBM ServerProven Web site at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/
serverproven/compat/us/eserver.html.
Controls and indicators
Blade servers typically provide the following controls and indicators:
KVM select button
Activity LED
Location LED
Information LED
Blade-error LED
Media-tray select button
Power-control button
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BladeCenter S Type 7779/8886: Installation and User's Guide
When using an operating system that supports a local console and
keyboard, press this button to associate the shared BladeCenter S chassis
keyboard and video ports with the blade server.
When this green LED is lit, it indicates that there is activity on the hard
disk drive or network.
When this blue LED is lit, it has been turned on by the system
administrator to aid in visually locating the blade server. The location LED
can be turned off through the Web interface of the advanced management
module or through the IBM Director Console.
When this amber LED is lit, it indicates that information about a system
error for the blade server has been placed in the advanced management
module event log. The information LED can be turned off through the Web
interface of the advanced management module or through the IBM
Director console.
When this amber LED is lit, it indicates that a system error has occurred in
the blade server. The blade-error LED will turn off after one of the
following events:
v Correcting the error
v Reseating the blade server in the BladeCenter S chassis
v Cycling the BladeCenter S chassis power
Press this button to associate the shared BladeCenter S chassis media tray
(removable-media drive and front-panel USB ports) with the blade server.
The LED on the button flashes while the request is being processed, then is
lit when the ownership of the media tray has been transferred to the blade
server. It can take approximately 20 seconds for the operating system in
the blade server to recognize the media tray.
If there is no response when you press the media-tray select button, use
the advanced management module to determine whether local control has
been disabled on the blade server.
This button is behind the control panel door. Press this button to turn on
or turn off the blade server.
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