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F5 WANJet

 400 Appliance

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How to get started with the WANJet 400 appliance

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6  Cable the WANJet 400 appliance

1  

Connect the blue Ethernet CAT6 cable to the 
LAN port on the front of the WANJet appliance. 
Connect the other end to your LAN switch. 

2  

Connect the orange crossover CAT6 cable to the 
WAN Port on the front of the WANJet appliance. 
Connect the other end to your WAN router. 

3  

You may optionally connect an Ethernet cable to the Management port on the front of the WANJet appliance. 
Connect the other end to your management network.

Plug the blue

Ethernet cable

into the LAN port

Plug the orange

crossover cable

into the WAN port

LAN WAN

Optional: Plug an Ethernet 

cable into the Management 

port (for out-of-band 

management)

1  

In a web browser, go to 

https://<WANJet 

IP address>:10000

. (If you set up the 

Management port, use the 

Mgt IP Address

 

instead.) The WANJet appliance login screen 
opens.

2  

Type the user name and password (the defaults 
are both 

admin

), and then click 

Log On

. The 

Web UI opens and displays the WANJet Status 
screen.

1  

In the WANJet Status screen, click the 

Not 

entered

 link, next to 

License

, to display the 

WANJet License Details screen.

2  

After 

Base Registration Key

, you should see 

your registration key (fi lled in at the factory).

3  

Click 

Next

The EULA (End User License Agreement) 
screen opens.

4  

Read the EULA, and then click 

Accept

 if 

you agree to the conditions. When license 
activation is complete, the WANJet License 
Details screen opens and shows the current 
license date. 

Note:

 If automatic license activation does not work, 

you can use manual activation instead. On the 
WANJet License Details screen, next to 

Activation 

Method

, select 

Manual

 and follow the directions on 

the screen.

Next, you can complete the confi guration of the 
WANJet appliance including changing the default 
password, specifying remote WANJet appliances, 
and setting up optimization, IT service, and QoS 
policies. See the 

WANJet Appliance Administrator 

Guide

 for details.

7  Log on to the WANJet 400 appliance 

Finally, check that you can log on to the appliance remotely, and activate the license. 

To log on  

To activate the license

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