Question
What do the LEDs convey on Series 3 Datto devices?
Environment
- Datto ALTO 3
- Datto SIRIS 3 Business/Datto NAS
- Datto SIRIS 3 Professional
- Datto SIRIS 3 Enterprise
Answer
This article explains the standard LED indicators on the front and rear panels of Datto devices. Your device may have a different form factor than those depicted, depending on its size and number of array drives.
ALTO 3
The Datto ALTO 3 uses two LED indicator lights on the front panel:
- The power indicator is green when the device is powered up and active, and red when the device is off.
- The hard drive activity indicator flashes blue when the device accesses the HDD.
Figure 1: SIRIS 3 LED indicators
SIRIS 3 Business/Datto NAS
Front panel
- The power indicator LED surrounds the square power button, and glows blue when powered on.
- The drive activity LEDs glow blue during normal use. When a disk is accessed, the corresponding drive indicator will turn amber and blink rapidly.
- The rectangular LED beneath the power button does not convey any information at this time.
Figure 8: SIRIS 3 Business front panel
Back panel
- Each Ethernet adapter, and the IPMI adapter, has a flashing green and amber LED indicating the link is active. The power indicator shows the device's power status.
Figure 9: SIRIS 3 Business, back panel
SIRIS 3 Professional
Front panel
- The power indicator LED surrounds the power button, and glows blue when powered on.
- The drive activity LEDs glow blue during normal use. When a disk is accessed, the corresponding drive indicator will turn amber and blink rapidly.
Figure 2: SIRIS 3 Professional front panel
Back panel
Figure 3: SIRIS 3 Professional back panel
- Each Ethernet adapter, and the IPMI adapter, has a flashing green and amber LED indicating the link is active. The power indicator shows the devices power status.
- The NIC activity LEDs will not illuminate if the device is not plugged into a gigabit connection.
SIRIS 3 Enterprise
Front panel
- Most of the LED indicators are located in a bank on the left side of the device's face, along with the power and reset buttons.
- Each drive bay has a multifunction LED that displays various color coded messages. Refer to the table below for hard drive status indicator meanings:
Figure 4: HDD status light color codes
Figure 5: SIRIS 3 Enterprise front panel
The remaining status LEDs indicate, from top to bottom:
- hard drive activity (this will blink to indicate disk activity)
- generic device errors (This will illuminate for hardware or system log-related errors)
- activity on LAN 1
- activity on LAN 2 (if configured)
Figure 6: SIRIS 3 Enterprise status LEDs, front panel
Back panel
- Each Ethernet adapter, and the IPMI adapter, has a flashing green and amber LED indicating the link is active. The power indicator shows the devices power status.
- The NIC activity LEDs will not illuminate if the device is not plugged into a gigabit connection.
Figure 7: SIRIS 3 Enterprise back panel