Front panel components
FortiSwitch-5003B system
FortiSwitch-5003B System Guide
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Whether or not these LEDs are lit depends on the configuration of the SH1 and SH2
interfaces on the FortiSwitch-5003B board, the configuration of the chassis backplane,
the ATCA chassis that the boards are installed in, and if one or both shelf managers are
installed and configured to connect using the backplane or their front panel Ethernet
interfaces.
Fabric channel interfaces
Table 4
lists and describes the FortiSwitch-5003B fabric channel interfaces. You can
configure fabric interface settings, group fabric interfaces into trunks, and configure
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) for fabric interfaces from the FortiSwitch-5003B
web-based manager or CLI (see
“Changing the switch fabric-channel configuration” on
page 34
).
The fabric network activity LEDs show links and network activity for the interfaces and
connections listed in
Table 5
.
Table 4: Fabric channel interfaces
Interface Name
Description
Front
Panel
CLI*
1/2
f8/slot-1/2
Interconnection interface between fabric channels 1 and 2. If
there are two FortiSwitch-5003B boards installed in a chassis
this interface can be used to communicate between them.
This interface shares the same switch port as the front panel
F8 interface and is deactivated by default. The FortiGate-
5060 fabric backplane is a triply-replicated mesh that results
in additional connections between FortiSwitch-5003B boards
installed in the same chassis. See
“More about Fabric
backplane interfaces and chassis slots” on page 11
.
3 to 14
slot-3 to
slot-14
Fabric backplane slots 3 to 14.
The 3 to 14 fabric network activity LEDs are lit if there are
FortiGate boards in chassis slots 3 to 14.
F1 to F7
f1 to f7/x-
channel
Front panel 10-gigabit fabric interfaces F1 to F7.
Use these interfaces to connect your network to the fabric
channel, to connect fabric channel 1 to fabric channel 2, or to
connect a fabric channel on one chassis to a fabric channel
on another chassis.
F7/x-channel can be switched between the F7 interface and
the x-channel interface. By default this interface is set to F7
and the x-channel interface is not normally used.
F8
f8/slot-1/2
Front panel interface F8. Fabric backplane interconnection
interface slot 1/2 and front panel interface F8 share the same
FortiSwitch-5003B switch port. By default the front panel
interface F8 is activated and fabric backplane
interconnection interface slot 1/2 is deactivated.
* You can configure settings for FortiSwitch-5003B fabric interfaces from the
FortiSwitch-5003B CLI. The CLI columns show the names of the interfaces as they
appear on the FortiSwitch-5003B CLI.
