What do the LED's on my Network Management Card mean?

Issue

The status and link LEDs (found on the left and right side of the ethernet port) on a Network Management Card give information on the current status of the NMC

Product Line

• Network Management Card 1 - AP9617, AP9618, AP9619

Devices with an embedded Network Management Card 1 include (but are not limited to): Metered/Switched Rack PDUs (AP78XX, AP79XX), Rack Automatic Transfer Switches (AP77XX, Environmental Monitoring Units (AP9320, AP9340, Netbotz 200)

• Network Management Card 2 - AP9630/AP9630CH, AP9631/AP9631CH, AP9635/35CH

Devices with an embedded Network Management Card 2 include (but are not limited to): 2G Metered/Switched Rack PDUs (AP84XX, AP86XX, AP88XX, AP89XX), Certain Audio/Video Network Management Enabled products.

• Network Management Card 4 – AP9644

Devices with an embedded Network Management Card 4 include: Galaxy VS

• All firmware versions (unless otherwise noted)
• All serial numbers

Network Management Card 2 / 3





The status LED (right side facing NMC2, left side facing NMC3) shows the following:

LED Behavior	Meaning
Off	The card is not receiving power or is in a boot up
Solid Green	The card has valid IP settings
Solid Orange	NMC2: Hardware Malfunction NMC3: In Bootmonitor mode or Hardware Malfunction
Flashing Green	The card does not have valid IP settings
Flashing Orange	The card is making BootP requests
Alternating Green/Orange	Rapidly - The card is booting up
	Slowly - The card is making a DHCP request
Flickering Orange	NMC2: In Bootmonitor Mode.

The Link LED (left side facing NMC2, right side facing NMC3) shows the following:

LED Behavior	Meaning
Off	The card is not receiving power, does not have a connected network cable or the device (switch/hub) connected to the card is not active
Solid Green	The card is on a network that communicates at 10Mbps
Solid Orange	The card is on a network that communicates at 100Mbps
Flashing Green	The card is receiving data packets at 10Mbps
Flashing Orange	The card is receiving data packets at 100Mbps
NMC3 Flashing Green	The card is receiving data packets at 1000Mbps

Network Management Card 4


The status LED (right side facing) shows the following:

LED Behavior	Meaning
Off	The card is not receiving power or is in a boot up
Solid Green	The card has valid IP settings
Solid Orange	The card does not have valid IP settings
Alternating Green/Orange	Rapidly - The card is booting up
	Slowly - The card is making a DHCP request
Reset to factory default mode:
3 Short Orange	Password only reset* sequence activated *See the Security Handbook for information in relation to password only reset function.
3 Short Green	NMC is resetting to factory defaults

The Link LED (left side facing) shows the following

LED Behavior	Meaning
Off	The card is not receiving power, does not have a connected network cable or the device (switch/hub) connected to the card is not active
Solid Green	The card is on a network that communicates at 1 Gbps
Solid Orange	The card is on a network that communicates at 10 or 100 Mbps
Flashing Green	The card is receiving data packets at 1 Gbps
Flashing Orange	The card is receiving data packets at 10 or 100Mbps

Released for:Schneider Electric Hong Kong