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Chapter 4 Maintenance and Upgrade Procedures
Installing and Replacing the 4GE SSM
Installing and Replacing the 4GE SSM
The 4GE SSM has four 10/100/1000 Mbps, copper, RJ-45 ports and four optional 1000 Mbps,
Small-Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) fiber ports.
Note
When using the 4GE SSM you can use the same numbered copper ports (RJ-45) and the SFP ports at the
same time. Use the
media-type
command in interface configuration mode to set the media type to copper
or fiber Gigabit Ethernet. For a complete description of the command syntax, see the
Cisco ASA 5500
Series Command Reference
.
This section describes how to install and replace the 4GE SSM in the adaptive security appliance, and
includes the following topics:
•
Overview, page 4-14
•
Installing the 4GE SSM, page 4-15
•
Replacing the 4GE SSM, page 4-16
•
Installing and Removing the SFP Modules, page 4-16
Overview
Figure 4-17
lists the 4GE SSM ports and LEDs.
Figure 4-17
4GE SSM Ports and LEDs
Note
Figure 4-17
shows SFP modules installed in the ports slots. You must order and install the SFP modules
if you want to use this feature. For more information on SFP ports and modules, see the
“Installing and
Removing the SFP Modules” section on page 4-16
.
Table 4-1
describes the 4GE SSM
LEDs.
1
RJ-45 ports
5
Status LED
2
RJ-45 Link LED
6
SFP ports
3
RJ-45 Speed LED
7
SFP Link LED
4
Power LED
8
SFP Speed LED
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4
1
6
5
7
8
LNK
SPD
0
1
2
3
2
3
Cisco SSM-4GE
