White Papers

PowerEdge Product Group

Direct from

Development

PowerEdge MX7000 LED Control Panel

Tech Note by:

Stacy Gower

Jitendra Jagasia

Christopher Poblete

SUMMARY

This technical white paper

describes the features and

capabilities provided by the

control panels specifically the

LED Options

There are 2 other left control

panel options discussed in other

technical whitepapers

MX7000 Chassis and Front Control Panels

PowerEdge MX7000 chassis comes with a left and right control panel that

contains buttons, LEDs and ports that provide chassis power status, chassis

power control, chassis component health status, system identify and chassis

management connectivity.

Figure 1 – PowerEdge MX7000 front control panels

Right Control Panel

Looking in front of the chassis, the right

control panel contains the following button

and ports.

1. The chassis power button

2. USB type-A port 1

3. USB type-A port 2

4. Micro-USB port

5. Mini DisplayPort

1 Power Button

The power button on the right control panel

provides chassis power status and chassis

power control. When the LED of the power

button is lit green, the chassis power state is

ON. If not lit, the state is OFF.

Figure 2 – Right Control Panel

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Direct from Development PowerEdge Product Group PowerEdge MX7000 LED Control Panel MX7000 Chassis and Front Control Panels Tech Note by: Stacy Gower Jitendra Jagasia Christopher Poblete PowerEdge MX7000 chassis comes with a left and right control panel that contains buttons, LEDs and ports that provide chassis power status, chassis power control, chassis component health status, system identify and chassis management connectivity.
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Turning chassis power ON If the chassis power state is OFF, pressing the power button will cause the chassis power to turn ON. Turning chassis power OFF If the chassis power state is ON, pressing the power button and releasing it after a second will cause the chassis power to turn OFF “gracefully”. If there are no sleds present or there are sleds present but none are in the power on state, then the chassis power is turned OFF immediately.
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Direct from Development PowerEdge Product Group Left Control Panel Status - LED Version Looking in front of the chassis, the left control panel contains the following button and LEDs. 1.Chassis health status LED 2.Ambient temperature health status LED 3.Rear I/O module health status LED 4.Fan health status LED 5.Stacking state LED 6.Status LED 1 7.System identify button 6 2 1.