
Overview 1-15
LEDs
Interpreting LEDs after a Mode Change
When you change port modes, the meaning of LED colors also changes. Table 1-5 explains
how to interpret the LED colors after you change the mode.
Table 1-5 Meaning of LED Colors in Different Modes
Port Mode LED Color Meaning
STATUS (port status) Off No link.
Solid green Link present.
Flashing green Activity; port is transmitting or receiving data.
Alternating green-amber Link fault. Error frames can affect connectivity, and errors
such as excessive collisions, CRC errors, and alignment and
jabber errors are monitored for a link-fault indication.
Solid amber Port is not forwarding. Port was disabled by management or an
address violation or was blocked by Spanning-Tree Protocol
(STP).
Note After a port is reconfigured, the port status LED can
remainamberforupto30 seconds as STPchecks the switch for
possible loops.
UTL (utilization) Green The LEDs display backplane utilization on a logarithmic scale.
If all port status LEDs are green, the switch is using 50% or
more of its total bandwidth capacity. If the right-most LED is
amber, the switch is using less than 50% of its total bandwidth.
If the LED to the left of the right-most LED is amber, the
switch is using less than 25% of its total capacity, and so on.
See Figure 1-10, Figure 1-11, and Figure 1-12 for details.
DUPLEX Off Port is operating in half-duplex.
Green Port is operating in full-duplex.
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