Front View

AMS Express with front bezel. The front bezel should be installed after rack mounting the server and remain installed for proper cooling of the unit.

A fully loaded system is shown below with the front bezel removed. The unit contains 12 drive bays that are numbered as shown.

The Control Panels on either side of the system contain LEDs and Buttons correspond to their respective controllers and each drive bay has LEDs described below.

Item Component
1 Left Front Control Panel (Controller A)
2 Right Front Control Panel (Controller B)

Control Panel LEDs and Buttons (both control panels)

Item LED/Button* Indication/Function
1 Controller Power Status (LED/button)
  • Blue: Power on
  • Off: Power off
2 NMI (button) N/A
3 Reset (button) N/A
4 Controller ID (LED/button)
  • Blue: ID for the controller
  • Off: ID not lit
5 Controller Status (LED)
  • Red: Controller degraded
  • Off: Controller healthy
6 LAN1 Status (LED)
  • Yellow: LAN1 (10 GbE management network, port 1) link activity for the controller
  • Off: LAN1 link down
*LED/button displayed is specific to each controller's panel: Controller A - left control panel; Controller B - right control panel

LEDs for each drive

Item LED location LED State
1 Top Drive LED
  • Off: System off or drive not fully-seated
  • Solid Blue: Online/Healthy status
  • Blinking Blue: Drive access detected
2 Bottom Drive LED
  • Off: Healthy; no drive failure detected
  • Solid Red: Drive error

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