FortiGate-5001SX security system
The FortiGate-5001SX security system is a high-performance FortiGate security system with a total of 8 front panel gigabit ethernet interfaces and two base backplane interfaces. Use the front panel interfaces for connections to your networks and the backplane interfaces for communication between FortiGate-5000 series boards over the FortiGate-5000 chassis backplane.
You can also configure two or more FortiGate-5001SX boards to create a high availability (HA) cluster using the base backplane interfaces for HA heartbeat communication through chassis backplane, leaving all eight front panel gigabit interfaces available for network connections.
The FortiGate-5001SX board also supports high-end FortiGate features including 802.1Q VLANs, multiple virtual domains, 802.3ad aggregate interfaces, and FortiGate-5000 chassis monitoring.
Figure 20: FortiGate-5001SX front panel
Flash Disk | | Link/Traffic | Module |
Access | | Position |
Power | USB | | Status |
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CONSOLE | USB | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
PWR ACC | | | | | | | | | STA | IPM |
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Mounting | Extraction | | | | | | | | | Extraction Mounting |
Knot | | Lever | | | | | | | | | | Lever | Knot |
| Locking | | | RS-232 | 1 2 | 3 4 | | 5 6 7 8 | | | | | |
| Screw | | | Serial | SFP Gigabit fiber | | Gigabit Copper | | | |
or copper
The FortiGate-5001SX board includes the following features:
•A total of eight front panel gigabit interfaces
•Four gigabit interfaces that can accept Small Formfactor Pluggable (SFP) fiber or copper transceivers (interfaces 1, 2, 3, and 4)
•Four 10/100/1000Base-T gigabit copper network interfaces (interfaces 5, 6, 7, and 8)
•Two base backplane gigabit interfaces (port9 and port10) for HA heartbeat and data communications across the FortiGate-5000 chassis backplane.
•DB-9 RS-232 serial console connection
•One USB connector
•Mounting hardware
•LED status indicators
The FortiGate-5001SX board comes supplied with four fiber or four copper SFP transceivers. Before you can connect FortiGate-5001SX interfaces 1 to 4, you must insert the SFP transceivers into the FortiGate-5001SX front panel cage slots numbered 1 to 4.
