Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Supervisor Module LEDs
LED
MANAGEMENT
SFP or SFP+ UPLINK STATUS
Triangular LEDs pointing up or down,
indicating the status of the corresponding
port.
QSFP UPLINK STATUS
LEDs next to each QSFP port number,
indicating the status of the corresponding
port.
Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Switches Hardware Installation Guide
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LED Position or
Meaning
Color
Green
The 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet
management port is operational (link up).
Off
No signal is detected for the 10/100/1000
BASE-T Ethernet management port, or there
is a link configuration failure, or the link is
disabled by user (link down).
Green
SFP or SFP+ port link is up but there is no
packet activity.
Blinking Green
SFP or SFP+ port link is up and indicating
packet activity.
Amber
SFP or SFP+ link is disabled by the user,
that is, administratively down.
Blinking Amber
Hardware (PHY) has detected a faulty port
link.
Alternating Green
Error packets are being detected on the port
and Amber
link. The error packets could be bad Cyclic
Redundancy Check (CRC) packets, jumbo
packets, etc.
Off
SFP or SFP+ port link is down.
Green
QSFP port link is up but there is no packet
activity.
Blinking Green
QSFP port link is up and indicating packet
activity.
Amber
QSFP port link is disabled by the user, that
is, administratively down.
Alternating Green
Error packets are being detected on the
and Amber
QSFP port link. The error packets could be
bad Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
packets, jumbo packets, etc.
Off
QSFP port link is down.
LEDs