The following physical components of UCS have status and locator LEDs:

• UCS chassis
• Blade server
• UCS Fabric Interconnect

Status provides the overall operational state of the equipment and can be very useful in initial diagnostics. The status of a UCS component is available in the work pane in the top-left corner under the Fault Summary area.

Locator LEDs, on the other hand, can be turned on in order to physically identify the equipment and are very useful for onsite troubleshooting. Suppose one of the Fabric Interconnects or one of the blade servers is faulty, you may help an onsite technician to physically identify (and maybe replace) the faulty components if the locator LED is remotely turned on by the administrator from UCSM.

Please perform the following procedure for looking up the UCS component status and turning on/off the locator LED:

1. Log in to UCS Manager.
2. Click to expand the Equipment tab in the navigation pane.
3. In the Equipment tab, click to expand Chassis.
4. In the Status area of the work pane, the operational status of Fabric Interconnect is shown.
5. Click on Turn on Locator LED in the work pane. This option is also available if you right-click on Chassis.
6. Click on OK on the pop-up message to confirm your action:

The preceding screen shows the Status of the selected chassis. It also shows the option of turning on the locator LED. Once turned on, the locator LED will turn gray in UCS Manager and the text will change to Turn off Locator LED; now, the locator LED can be turned off from the same location: