Hello

If there is an amber light on the system status then there should be a message in the hardware or alert log of the iDRAC/LCC. You can also install OpenManage Server Administrator to check for issues. There may also be drive status lights on the system. If one of the drives is predictive failure or some other degraded state it may put an amber light on the drive carrier. That may not be reflected in the logs if you have cleared them, but the amber light will stay on.

You can find the download for OMSA and system manual on the system support page. The status lights should be listed in the manual.

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Thanks

thanks for the reply,

i have checked in OMSA no errors, there are no hard drives in it, have cleared controller to erase any past configs and yet amber light at the rear remains.

system status on the front is blue which is why im confused as to why the rear light would be amber

thanks

You should be able to find all of the LEDs in the manual. The manual should list what the LED is for and what the possible light patterns mean.