No xServe system activity lights in 10.8 Server

Hi there,
i have installed Mountain Lion Server on my xserve and everything is fine but the "System activity lights"
do not come to live at boottime as the did in Lion server.
I know they need a kext because by the time i was installing 10.7 server they only startet after installing the server app.
So this time i assumed ot would be the same but it did not.
Does anybody know which kext i have to install there to bring the lightsback?
Thanks,
Ben

I phoned apple support on this one, after a lot of explaining (to a rep with poor english), eventually i was told "not work in yosemite", end of case.
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#4 0x9313a588 in +[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace]
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xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x901643f0 ctr: 0x901643e4 mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x00000000 r1: 0xbffff7d0 r2: 0x24000280 r3: 0x00000000
r4: 0x00000000 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0x00000080 r7: 0xffffffff
r8: 0x00047010 r9: 0xa0001048 r10: 0x00047290 r11: 0xa3073610
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Thanks for you response. I looked at the panic.log and it does not have any entries for the times that the server went down. Here is the info from the system.log files:
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Jan 31 10:57:14 ProductionServer slpd: SR: service: ftp request from 192.168.1.144
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Feb 2 16:32:00 ProductionServer slpd: SR: service: nfs request from 192.168.1.144
Feb 2 16:32:00 ProductionServer slpd: SR: service: ftp request from 192.168.1.144
Feb 2 16:32:06 ProductionServer slpd: SR: service: afp request from 192.168.1.144
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Feb 2 16:32:07 ProductionServer slpd: SR: service: nfs request from 192.168.1.144
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