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    PA-7000 Series Firewall Hardware Reference

    Interpret the PA-7000 Series Firewall SMC LEDs

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    Interpret the PA-7000 Series Firewall SMC LEDs

    Use the following information to learn how to interpret the LED dashboard located on the first-generation and second-generation PA-7000 Series Firewall Switch Management Cards (SMCs). The only difference between the first-generation SMC and the second-generation SMC-B LEDs is that the LOG LED on the SMC-B is replaced with a service (SVC) LED.
    First-Generation SMC (PA-7050-SMC and PA-7080-SMC)
    Second-Generation SMC (PA-7050-SMC-B and PA-7080-SMC-B)
    LED
    State
    Description
    PWR (POWER)
    Green
    The chassis is powered.
    Off
    The chassis power is off.
    STS (STATUS)
    Green
    The chassis is operating normally.
    Yellow
    The chassis is booting up.
    HA
    Green
    The chassis is the current active firewall.
    Yellow
    The chassis is the current passive firewall.
    Off
    High availability (HA) is not enabled on this firewall.
    The above LED status descriptions are for an active/passive configuration. In an active/active configuration, the HA LED only indicates HA status for the local firewall and does not indicate HA connectivity of the peer. If HA is active on the given firewall the LED is green; if HA is not active the LED is off.
    See the ALM (Alarm) LED information in this table for information on how that LED changes if an HA issue occurs.
    TMP
    (Temperature)
    Green
    The chassis temperature is normal.
    Yellow
    The chassis temperature for one or more of the installed cards is outside the temperature tolerance.
    ALM
    (Alarm)
    Red
    There is a hardware failure, which may include the following:
    • Voltage issue.
    • Power supply detected but not operational.
    • Fan failure.
    • Hard drive failure.
    • Temperature above high temperature threshold.
    You may also see varying behavior for the ALM LED in an HA configuration as follows:
    • If HA transitions into tentative or a non-functional state, the ALM LED turns red.
    • When the state returns to a functional state (any active or passive state) the LED turns off.
    • If you intentionally suspend HA, the LED will not turn red.
    • If the firewall is suspended due to a failure loop, the firewall will go into a suspended state to end the loop. In this case, the LED turns red.
    Off
    The firewall is operating normally.
    FAN
    Green
    The fan trays and all fans are operating normally.
    Red
    One or more fans have failed on one or both of the fan trays. To determine which fan tray has a fan failure, check the fan tray LEDs.
    PS
    (Power Supply)
    Green
    All power supplies (AC or DC) are operating normally.
    Red
    One or more power supplies (AC or DC) has failed.
    LOG (First-generation PA-7050-SMC and PA-7080-SMC only.)
    Red
    There is a drive failure on the LPC, temperature issue, or other issue with the Log Processing Card (LPC). To determine which drive has failed, check the LEDs on each disk drive AMC.
    Off
    There are no alarms present on the Log Processing Card (LPC) and the card and drives are operating normally.
    SVC (Second-generation PA-7050-SMC-B and PA-7080-SMC-B.)
    The service LED option allows a remote administrator to illuminate the SVC LED on a specific front-slot card so an on-site technician can locate the card.
    Enter the following command to view the status of the SVC LED on all cards that have this LED: 
    admin@PA-7080> show system service-led status
Service LED
Slot    Description       Status
s1      empty             Off   
s2      empty             Off   
s3      PA-7000-100G-NPC  Off   
s4      empty             Off   
s5      empty             Off   
s6      PA-7080-SMC-B     On    
s7      PA-7000-LFC       On    
s8      empty             Off   
s9      empty             Off   
s10     empty             Off   
s11     empty             Off   
s12     empty             Off  
    SVC (Continued)
    Enter the following command to view the status for a card in a specific slot:
    admin@PA-7080> show system service-led status slot s3
    Enter the following command to enable all SVC LEDs:
    admin@PA-7080>set system setting service-led enable yes
    Enter the following command to disable the SVC LED:
    admin@PA-7080> set system setting service-led enable no
    Enter the following command to enable the SVC LED on the card in a specific slot:
    admin@PA-7080> set system setting service-led enable slot s3 yes
    Off
    LED is off.
    On
    LED is solid blue.
    The following table describes the functions and states of the SMC MGT port LEDs.
    LED
    Description
    Left
    The LED is solid green if there is a network link.
    Right
    The LED blinks green if there is network activity.
    The following table describes the functions and states of the SMC HA1-A and HA1-B port LEDs.
    LED
    Description
    Left
    The LED is solid green if there is a network link.
    Right
    The LED blinks green if there is network activity.
    The following table describes the functions and states of the SMC HSCI-A and HSCI-B port LEDs.
    LED
    Description
    Left
    The LED is solid green if there is a network link. Because this interface is comprised of four 10Gbps links, the LED uses an AND operation for all four link states.
    Right
    The LED blinks green if there is network activity. Because this interface is comprised of four 10Gbps links, the LED uses an OR operation of all four activity states.

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