M-700 Appliance Back Panel
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M-700 Appliance Back Panel
Learn about the M-700 appliance back-panel components.
The following image shows the back panel of the M-700
appliance and the table describes each back-panel component.
Item | Component | Description |
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1 | System drive | 480GB solid-state drive (SSD)
used to store the operating system files and system logs. |
2 | Power supplies | Use the AC power supply inputs to connect power
to the appliance. The second power supply is for redundancy. |
3 | Ethernet ports | Two RJ-45 100Mbps/1Gbps/10Gbps Ethernet ports.
While facing the back of the appliance, the ports are labeled as
follows: The port labels are located on top of the appliance.
For information on configuring
these ports, refer to the Panorama™ Administrator’s Guide on the Technical
Documentation Portal for the release version running on your
appliance. If the appliance is in PAN-DB mode, refer to the appropriate release-specific
PAN-OS® Administrators Guide. |
4 | USB ports | Not used. |
5 | IPMI port | Not used. |
6 | Console port | Use this port to connect a
management computer to the appliance using a 9-pin serial cable and
terminal emulation software. The console connection provides
access to appliance boot messages, the Maintenance Recovery Tool
(MRT), and the command line interface (CLI). If your
management computer does not have a serial port, use a USB-to-serial converter. Use
the following settings to configure your terminal emulation software
to connect to the console port:
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7 | Unique Identification (UID)
button and LED | Use the UID feature to help
you locate the appliance when you move from the back to the front of
the equipment rack where the appliance is installed. When you push
the UID button to enable the UID feature, both the front-panel System information
LED and the back-panel UID LED illuminate bright blue to help you
locate the appliance when you move between opposite sides of the equipment
rack. The back-panel UID LED is located to the right of the UID
button. Push the UID button again to deactivate these LEDs. The
UID button is very small and is located to the left of the UID LED.
Use a small object, such as a paper clip, to press the button. 
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8 | SFP+ ports | Two SFP+ (10Gbps) ports. While facing the back
of the appliance, the left port is labeled Ethernet 1/3 and the
right port is labeled Ethernet 1/2. The port labels
are located on top of the appliance. Ethernet 1/2 and Ethernet 1/3 are configured as link aggregation
group (LAG) ports and cannot be changed.
For information
on configuring these ports, refer to the Panorama™ Administrator’s
Guide on the Technical Documentation Portal for the release
running on your appliance. If the appliance is in PAN-DB mode, refer
to the appropriate release-specific PAN-OS® Administrators Guide. |