PA-3400 Series Firewall Overview
Item
Component
Descripon
If your management computer does not
have a serial port, use a USB-to-serial
converter.
Use the following sengs to configure your
terminal emulaon soware to connect to the
console port:
• Data rate: 9600
• Data bits: 8
• Parity: None
• Stop bits: 1
• Flow control: None
8
USB port
A USB port that accepts a USB flash drive with a
bootstrap bundle (PAN-OS configuraon).
Bootstrapping speeds up the process of configuring
and licensing the firewall to make it operaonal on
the network with or without internet access.
9
CONSOLE port (Micro USB)
Use this port to connect a management computer to
the firewall using a standard Type-A USB-to-micro
USB cable.
The console connecon provides access to firewall
boot messages, the Maintenance Recovery Tool
(MRT), and the command line interface (CLI).
Refer to the
informaon and to download the Windows driver
or to learn how to connect from a Mac or Linux
computer.
10
LED status indicators
Eight LEDs that indicate the status of the firewall
hardware components (see
11
System Drive Cover
Secures the device SSD.
The following image shows the front panel of the PA-3430 and PA-3440 firewalls and the table
describes each front panel component.
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