What Do the LED Indicators Mean on Datto SIRIS 4 and NAS 4 Devices?

Question

What do the LEDs indicate on Datto SIRIS 4 and NAS 4 devices?

Environment

Datto SIRIS 4 Professional
Datto SIRIS 4X Professional
Datto SIRIS 4 Enterprise
Datto SIRIS 4X Enterprise

Answer

NOTE This article covers LED indicator information for Datto SIRIS 4 devices.

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.

SIRIS 4 Professional and SIRIS 4X 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 1: SIRIS 4 Professional front panel

Back panel

Figure 2: SIRIS 4 Professional back panel

Each Ethernet adapter, and the IPMI adapter, has a flashing green and amber LED indicating the link is active.
The NIC activity LEDs will not illuminate if the device is not plugged into a gigabit connection.

SIRIS 4 Enterprise and SIRIS 4 X 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 3: HDD status light color codes

The remaining status LEDs indicate, from top to bottom:

Hard drive activity (Unlike the illustration below, this light is normally on and is solid amber)
Generic device errors (This will illuminate for hardware or system log-related errors)
Activity on LAN 1
Activity on LAN 2 (if configured)

Figure 5: SIRIS 4 Enterprise status LEDs, front panel