MX7000 At-the-box Chassis Health Status and Alerts from the LCD control panel Dell EMC Technical White Paper
Revisions Revisions Date Description Jan 2019 Initial release Acknowledgements This paper was produced by the following members of the Dell EMC storage engineering team: Author: Santosh Bidaralli and Christopher Poblete 2 MX7000 At-the-box Chassis Health Status and Alerts from the LCD control panel | Document ID
Acknowledgements Contents Revisions.............................................................................................................................................................................2 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................................................................2 Introduction ................................................................................................................
Introduction Introduction PowerEdge MX7000 next-generation modular chassis with the touch screen LCD on the left control panel provides an enhanced graphical capability to the at-the-box chassis management.
Navigating the LCD Navigating the LCD The LCD panel is vertically oriented with dimension of 15.66 mm wide by 62.64 mm tall with viewable resolution of 120 by 480 pixels. It supports touch and has no physical buttons. Navigating the LCD is touch based. The interactive display in the LCD consists of a menu that contains a series of buttons arranged vertically. Each button has a text box and an optional icon.
Viewing Alerts count and subsystem list Alerts from Home menu Viewing alerts from Home menu Alerts from Main menu Viewing alerts from Home menu Table 1 below describes the list of subsystem alerts for PowerEdge MX7000 Management Module: 6 Subsystem Max alert count MM GUI display Fan Miscellaneous PowerSupply Temperature CMC System.Modular.1 System.Modular.2 System.Modular.3 System.Modular.4 System.Modular.
Viewing subsystem alerts System.Modular.6 System.Modular.7 System.Modular.8 IOM.Slot.A1 IOM.Slot.A2 IOM.Slot.B1 IOM.Slot.B2 IOM.Slot.C1 IOM.Slot.C2 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Sled‐6 Sled‐7 Sled‐8 IOM‐A1 IOM‐A2 IOM‐B1 IOM‐B2 IOM‐C1 IOM‐C2 Sled‐6 Sled‐7 Sled‐8 IOM‐A1 IOM‐A2 IOM‐B1 IOM‐B2 IOM‐C1 IOM‐C2 1.
Viewing alert details Viewing alert details User can pressing or touch on any of the alert from a specific subsystem alert list to view its details. Figure 5 shows the alert details of the selected alert for the miscellaneous subsystem alert list. Alert details User can view the resolution for the specific alert on alert details menu by scrolling down. Figure 6 shows the resolution for the alert selected in Figure 5.
Amber LED notification Amber LED indicating alerts Rear of the chassis has a status LED that blinks amber in addition to the LED ring located on the front of the chassis. Figure 8 shows the LED status at the rear of the chassis. Amber LED at the rear of the chassis This LED ring turns solid blue when there are no alerts in the management module after the idle timeout. Figure 8 shows LCD state after the idle timeout when there are no alerts.
Dismiss Amber LED notification LCD with no alerts Status LED at the rear of the chassis turns solid blue when there are no alerts. Solid Blue LED at the rear of the chassis Dismiss Amber LED notification Amber LED notification can be dismissed temporarily by touching or pressing “Dismiss amber LED notification on chassis?” and pressing “Yes” button on the confirmation menu. The amber Alert LED will remain dismissed until Management Module reset or a new alert is reported.
References Dismiss amber LED notification References 11 OpenManage Mobile (OMM) is a mobile device client application for systems management that supports PowerEdge MX7000. See the OMM User’s Guide for more information. OpenManage Enterprise Modular (OME-M) is the chassis management firmware embedded in the Management Module for PowerEdge MX7000. See the OME-M User’s Guide for more information.
