F5 ARX-4000, Hardware Installation Manual

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Chassis Overview
ARX®4000 Hardware Installation Guide 4 - 3
Chassis Overview
The front of the ARX includes the control panel components (the hard drive
bays and Ethernet ports, for example) and indicators such as the NIC and
status LEDs.
The following figure shows the front panel of the ARX with its bezel
removed and main components indicated.
Figure 4.1 ARX Front Panel– Bezel Removed
Figure 4.2 ARX Back Panel
The switch contains the following components:
• External interfaces including:
– Serial console port
– 10/100/1000 Mbps out-of-band (OOB) Ethernet management port
– Twelve copper 100/1000 gigabit Ethernet ports
– Two optical 10 gigabit Ethernet ports.
• Front control panel LEDs that indicate system status, power, and various
operational states. For specifics, see Table 4.1 on page 4-7.
• Front data panel LEDs that indicate PCI link status, NVRAM battery
status, data plane power supply status, and various operational states. For
specifics, see
Table 4.2 on page 4-9.