FortiGate-5001A security system
FortiGate-5001A Security System Guide
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FortiGate-5001A security system
The FortiGate-5001A security system is a high-performance Advanced
Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ACTA) compliant FortiGate
security system that can be installed in any ACTA chassis including the
FortiGate-5140, FortiGate-5050, or FortiGate-5020 chassis.
The FortiGate-5001A security system contains two front panel gigabit ethernet
interfaces, two base backplane gigabit interfaces, and two fabric backplane
gigabit interfaces. Use the front panel interfaces for connections to your networks
and the backplane interfaces for communication between FortiGate-5000 series
boards over the ACTA chassis backplane. The fabric interfaces are reserved for
future 10-gigabit operation but can be used now for board to board 1-gigabit
operation. In FortiGate-5140 and FortiGate-5050 chassis you must install a
FortiSwitch-5003 board or another backplane switching product to support
backplane communication.
The FortiGate-5001A-DW front panel also includes a double-width Advanced
Mezzanine Card (AMC) opening. You can install a supported FortiGate ADM
module such as the FortiGate-ADM-XB2 or the FortiGate-ADM-FB8 in the AMC
opening. The FortiGate-ADM-XB2 adds two accelerated 10-gigabit interfaces to
the FortiGate-5001A board and the FortiGate-ADM-FB8 adds 8 accelerated
1 gigabit interfaces.
You can also configure two or more FortiGate-5001A boards to create a high
availability (HA) cluster using the base backplane interfaces for HA heartbeat
communication through the chassis backplane, leaving front panel interfaces
available for network connections.
The FortiGate-5001A board also supports high-end FortiGate features including
802.1Q VLANs, multiple virtual domains, 802.3ad aggregate interfaces, and
FortiGate-5000 chassis monitoring.
Figure 1: FortiGate-5001A front panel
The FortiGate-5001A board includes the following features:
• Two front panel 10/100/1000Base-T copper gigabit ethernet interfaces.
• Two base backplane gigabit interfaces (base CH0 and Base CH1 on the front
panel and base1 and base2 in the firmware) for HA heartbeat and data
communications across the FortiGate-5000 chassis backplane. The base
backplane gigabit interfaces can also be used for data communications across
the FortiGate-5000 chassis backplane if combined with a board that supports
backplane base switching.
port1 and port2
10/100/1000
Copper Interfaces
USB
Fabric and Base
network activity
LEDs
Double-width AMC
opening
RJ-45
Console
Extraction
Lever
Retention
Screw
Extraction
Lever
Retention
Screw
IPM
LED
(board
position)
ACC
OOS
Power
Status
LEDs