FortiSwitch-5003 system

Front panel LEDs and connectors

FortiSwitch-5003 system

The FortiSwitch-5003 board provides base backplane interface switching for the FortiGate-5140 chassis and the FortiGate-5050 chassis. You can use this switching for data communication or HA heartbeat communication between the base backplane interfaces of FortiGate-5000 series boards installed in slots 3 and up in these chassis. FortiSwitch-5003 boards can be used for base backplane communication in a single chassis or between multiple chassis.

Install FortiSwitch-5003 boards in chassis slots 1 and 2. A FortiSwitch-5003 board in slot 1 provides communications on base backplane interface 1. A FortiSwitch-5003 board in slot 2 provides communications on base backplane interface 2.

If your configuration includes only one FortiSwitch-5003 board you can install it in slot 1 or slot 2 and configure the FortiGate-5000 boards installed in the chassis to use the correct base backplane interface.

The FortiSwitch-5003 board includes the following features:

A total of 16 10/100/1000Base-T gigabit ethernet interfaces:

13 backplane 10/100/1000Base-T gigabit interfaces for base backplane switching between FortiGate-5000 series boards installed in the same chassis as the FortiSwitch-5003

Three front panel 10/100/1000Base-T gigabit interfaces (ZRE0, ZRE1, ZRE2) for base backplane switching between two or more FortiGate-5000 series chassis

One 100Base-TX out of band management ethernet interface (ETH0)

RJ-45 RS-232 serial console connection (CONSOLE)

Mounting hardware

LED status indicators

Front panel LEDs and connectors

From the FortiSwitch-5003 font panel you can view the status of the board LEDs to verify that the board is functioning normally. You can also connect the FortiSwitch-5003 board in one chassis to a FortiSwitch-5003 board in another chassis through the front panel ethernet connections. The front panel also includes and out of band management ethernet interface and the RJ-45 console port for connecting to the FortiSwitch-5003 CLI.

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