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MX400 Installation Guide

This document describes how to install and set up the MX400 security appliance. Additional reference documents are
available online at:

www.meraki.com/library/products

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MX400 Overview

The Meraki MX400 is an enterprise security appliance designed for for
distributed networks that require remote administration. It is ideal for
network administrators who demand both ease of deployment and a
state-of-the-art feature set. The MX400 appliance provides the following
new features:

• Four bypass (fail-to-wire) ports

• USB port, to support approved 3G/4G cards for failover to cellular

networks.

• Support for two interface modules. Each module can have either

eight 1Gbit

• RJ45 or SFP ports or two 10Gbit SFP+ ports.

• Dedicated management port.

• Rail-kit for rack mounting

Package contents

In addition to the MX400, the following are provided.

The MX400 front panel

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Страница 1: ... It is ideal for network administrators who demand both ease of deployment and a state of the art feature set The MX400 appliance provides the following new features Four bypass fail to wire ports USB port to support approved 3G 4G cards for failover to cellular networks Support for two interface modules Each module can have either eight 1Gbit RJ45 or SFP ports or two 10Gbit SFP ports Dedicated ma...

Страница 2: ...atus Meaning 1 Power Solid orange Power is applied Flashing green Operation in progress Solid green Fully operational 2 Warning Off During boot or no USB link Orange Device requires attention Dashboard will contain additional information 3 Disk status Off No disk activity Orange Requires attention Green Disk activity 4 Bypass status Off WAN and LAN ports are separated Green WAN and LAN ports are c...

Страница 3: ... exclusive Only one port of a pair is supported at a time Using MX Expansion Slots and Modules The MX400 has 2 expansion slots which can accept the following Meraki Interface Modules IM 8 CU 1GB Meraki 8 x 1 GbE Copper Interface Module for MX400 and MX600 IM 8 SFP 1GB Meraki 8 x 1 GbE SFP Interface Module for MX400 and MX600 IM 2 SFP 10GB Meraki 2 x 10 GbE SFP Interface Module for MX400 and MX600 ...

Страница 4: ...d through a browser running on a client PC This web service is used for configuring and monitoring basic ISP WAN connectivity Setting up a static IP address To ensure that the client PC is redirected to the local web service in the following step you must disable all other network services ex wi fi on your client machine Do the following to configure basic connectivity and other networking paramet...

Страница 5: ...d by your ISP in order to complete these steps Choose Connection Type PPPoE Select your Authentication option If you select Use authentication enter appropriate values for Username and Password Web proxy settings These settings take effect if the MX device has to fall back to using HTTP to contact the Cloud Controller By default web proxy is disabled To enable web proxy do the following Choose Web...

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