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Fortinet FortiGate 5020 manual

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    www.fortinet.com FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-200612 07 For tiGate-5020 Chassis Guide A detailed guide to the feat ures and cap abilities FortiGate-5020 chassis. This FortiG ate-5020 C hassis Guide describes FortiGate-5020 hardware features, and how to install th e FortiGate-5020 chassis. The mos t recent versio ns of this and all For[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-20061 207 W arnings and cautions Only trained and qual ified personnel should b e allo wed to install or maintain FortiGate-5000 series equipment. Read and comply with all warning s, cautions and notices in this document. • T urning off all power switche s may not turn of f all power to the FortiGate-500[...]

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    Contents FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-2006120 7 3 Contents Warnings and cautions .............. ................ ................ ................. ................ ...... 2 FortiGate-5020 chassis ................................... ................... 5 FortiGate-5020 front panel ... ................ ................ ............. ..[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 4 01-30000-0043-200612 07 Contents[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 chassis FortiGate-5020 front panel FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-2006120 7 5 FortiGate-5020 chassis Y ou can install one or two FortiGate-5000 se ries modules in the two slots of the FortiGate-50 2 0 A TCA chassis. The For tiG at e-5020 is a 4U chassis that contains two redundant AC to DC power supplies that connect to A[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 6 01-30000-0043-200612 07 FortiGate-5020 back panel FortiGate- 50 2 0 ch assi s FortiGate-5020 back p anel Figure 2 shows the back of a FortiGate-50 20 chassis. The chassis back pane l includes two redundant AC power connec tors and provides access to th e hot swappable cooling fan tray . Each AC po we r connector inclu[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 h ardware procedures Mounting the Fo rtiG ate-5020 chassis FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-2006120 7 7 FortiGate-5020 hardware procedures This chapter describes: • Mounting the FortiGate- 5020 chassis • Connecting the FortiGate-5020 chassis to AC power • T urning on FortiGate-5020 chassis power • Inserting FortiGat[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 8 01-30000-0043-200612 07 T urn ing on FortiGate-5020 chassis power FortiGate-5020 hardwa re procedures T urning on FortiGate-5020 chassis power Once the FortiGate-5020 chassis is conne cted to two AC power sources you can turn on the power by switching on t he circuit breakers at the b ack of the FortiGate-5020 chassis[...]

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    Base backplane communications and HA between FortiGat e-5020 chassis FortiGate-5020 base backpla ne interfaces FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-2006120 7 9 Base backplane communications and HA between FortiGate-5020 chassis This chapter describes: • FortiGate-5020 base ba ckplane interfaces • FortiGate HA between two FortiGate-502 0 c[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 10 01-30000-0043-200612 07 FortiGate HA between two FortiGate-5020 chassis Base backplane co mmunications and HA b etween FortiGate-5020 cha ssis FortiGate HA between tw o FortiGate-5020 chassis The FortiGate-5020 chassis does not support dir ect ethernet connections between two or more FortiGate-5020 ch assis. T o conf[...]

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    Base backplane communications and HA bet wee n FortiGate-502 0 chassis FortiGate HA between two FortiGate-5020 chassis FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-20061 207 11 Figure 4: FortiGate-5001SX HA h eartbeat inter face configuration[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 12 01-30000-0043-200612 07 FortiGate HA between two FortiGate-5020 chassis Base backplane co mmunications and HA b etween FortiGate-5020 cha ssis[...]

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    For more information Fortinet documentation FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-20061 207 13 For more information Support for you r Fort ine t pr od u c t is ava ilab le as onlin e he lp fr om within the web-based manager, fro m the T ools and Document ation CD included with the product, on the Fortinet T echnical Docume nt ation web site, f[...]

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    FortiGate-5020 Chassis Guide 01-30000-0043-200612 07 www.fortinet.com © Copyright 2006 Fortinet, Inc. All rights rese rved. No part of this publication including text, examples, diagrams or illustrations may be reproduced, transmitted, or tran slated in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanica l, manual, optical or otherwise, for any pur po[...]