[jpaquin]

thanks, I know what you are talking about, but that would have only been 4 solid lights, 2 on each row, and we still would’ve seen activity represented on them. With an ‘on’ indicating a light on, and an ‘x’ indicating a light off the representation was:

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These servers do have 8 cores, so it’s possible it was trying to represent that, but we still had no activity represented. We have at this point proven the light status to be the result of an OS build being installed that truly was never meant to go on that particular server.

Thanks,
Jason

[jpaquin]

If anyone is interested in the outcome, it turns out this was all due to different OS builds. The servers that displayed this light pattern at random had been built off of an OS build that was slightly older than the server itself. All of these servers shipped with 10.5.0, but apparently two of them were purchased 2 weeks before the others and their original builds were different. The client then mixed up all of the installation cds and rebuilt the servers at random… Some newer servers got the older discs. It all comes down to organization…

The interesting find is that the servers were functioning without any known issues (other than frequent crashes that were caused by the client installing the ram incorrectly) even when running off of the incorrect build. The only clues were the lights on the front.

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