Fortinet 5001A-SW Powering off the FortiGate-5001A board, To power off a FortiGate-5001A board

Quick Configuration Guide Powering off the FortiGate-5001A board

To enable fabric backplane data communication from the FortiGate-5001A

CLI

From the FortiGate-5001A board CLI you can use the following steps to enable fabric backplane data communication.

1Enter the following command to show the backplane interfaces:

config system global

set show-backplane-intf enable end

The fabric1 and fabric2 backplane interfaces now appear in all Interface lists. You can now configure the fabric backplane interfaces and add routes, firewall policies and other configuration settings using these interfaces.

To enable sending heartbeat packets to the FortiSwitch-5003A

Use the following command to enable sending heartbeat packets from the FortiGate-5001A fabric interfaces. A FortiSwitch-5003A board receives the heartbeat packets to verify that the FortiGate-5001A board is still active.

The FortiGate-5001A board sends 10 packets per second from each fabric interface. The packets are type 255 bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) packets.

1Enter the following command to enable sending heartbeat packets:

config system global

set fortiswitch-heartbeat enable end

Powering off the FortiGate-5001A board

To avoid potential hardware problems, always shut down the FortiGate-5001A operating system properly before removing the FortiGate-5001A board from a chassis slot or before powering down the chassis.

To power off a FortiGate-5001A board

1Shut down the FortiGate-5001A operating system:

•From the web-based manager, go to System > Status and from the Unit Operation widget, select Shutdown and then select OK.

•From the CLI enter execute shutdown

2Remove the FortiGate-5001A board from the chassis slot.

Note: Once a shutdown operation is completed, the only way to restart the

FortiGate-5001A board is to remove and reinsert it.

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