
PA-7000 Series Firewall Overview
Item
Component
Description
1
Exhaust fan tray
Provides ventilation and cooling for the chassis. The fan
trays are interchangeable, so you can install them in either
fan tray slot.
During normal operation, the Power LED is green and
the Fault LED is off. If an individual fan fails on the fan
tray, the Power LED turns off and the red Fault LED
illuminates.
For information on replacing a fan tray, see
2
Upper cable guide
(
Optional
) Provides cable management to route Ethernet
cables and the console cable. This item ships with the
chassis but is not preinstalled.
3
Switch Management Card
(SMC)
Provides management access to the chassis using a
serial console cable connected to the Console port
or an RJ-45 cable connected to the management
(MGT) port. The SMC also has high availability (HA)
ports and LED indicators that provide information on
various chassis components. The SMC also stores PAN-
OS, the configuration, and management logs (
Alarm
,
Configuration
, and
System
).
IMPORTANT
: The SMC is required to operate the chassis
and a PA-7080 firewall, it must be installed in slot 6.
The SMC-B is shipped with four copper 1G
transceivers for use in the MGT-A, MGT-B,
HA1-A, and HA1-B ports. You can use these
or replace them with a transceiver of your
choice.
There are two PA-7050 SMC models as described in
PA-7000 Series Firewall Switch Management Cards
.
The PAN-OS
®
software is preinstalled on the
embedded solid-state drive (SSD) on the SMC.
4
Log Processing Card (LPC)
(shown) or Log Forwarding
Card (LFC)
There are two log card models:
•
LFC
(
PAN-OS 9.0 or later
)—High-speed log forwarding
card that forwards all dataplane logs to an external
log collection system, such as Panorama or a syslog
server. The only logs that are stored locally are the
Alarm
,
Configuration
, and
System
logs; these logs are
stored on the SMC.
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