: M-700 Appliance Back Panel
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M-700 Appliance Back Panel

Learn about the M-700 appliance back-panel components.
The following image shows the back panel of the M-700 appliance and the table describes each back-panel component.
Item
Component
Description
1
System drive
480GB solid-state drive (SSD) used to store the operating system files and system logs.
2
Power supplies
Use the AC power supply inputs to connect power to the appliance. The second power supply is for redundancy.
3
Ethernet ports
Two RJ-45 100Mbps/1Gbps/10Gbps Ethernet ports. While facing the back of the appliance, the ports are labeled as follows:
The port labels are located on top of the appliance.
  • Left
    —Management (MGT) port used for managing the appliance and for data traffic.
  • Right
    —Ethernet1/1
For information on configuring these ports, refer to the Panorama™ Administrator’s Guide on the Technical Documentation Portal for the release version running on your appliance. If the appliance is in PAN-DB mode, refer to the appropriate release-specific PAN-OS® Administrators Guide.
4
USB ports
Not used.
5
IPMI port
Not used.
6
Console port
Use this port to connect a management computer to the appliance using a 9-pin serial cable and terminal emulation software.
The console connection provides access to appliance boot messages, the Maintenance Recovery Tool (MRT), and the command line interface (CLI).
If your management computer does not have a serial port, use a USB-to-serial converter.
Use the following settings to configure your terminal emulation software to connect to the console port:
  • Data rate: 9600
  • Data bits: 8
  • Parity: None
  • Stop bits: 1
  • Flow control: None
7
Unique Identification (UID) button and LED
Use the UID feature to help you locate the appliance when you move from the back to the front of the equipment rack where the appliance is installed. When you push the UID button to enable the UID feature, both the front-panel System information LED and the back-panel UID LED illuminate bright blue to help you locate the appliance when you move between opposite sides of the equipment rack. The back-panel UID LED is located to the right of the UID button. Push the UID button again to deactivate these LEDs.
The UID button is very small and is located to the left of the UID LED. Use a small object, such as a paper clip, to press the button.
8
SFP+ ports
Two SFP+ (10Gbps) ports. While facing the back of the appliance, the left port is labeled Ethernet 1/3 and the right port is labeled Ethernet 1/2.
The port labels are located on top of the appliance.
Ethernet 1/2 and Ethernet 1/3 are configured as link aggregation group (LAG) ports and cannot be changed.
For information on configuring these ports, refer to the Panorama™ Administrator’s Guide on the Technical Documentation Portal for the release running on your appliance. If the appliance is in PAN-DB mode, refer to the appropriate release-specific PAN-OS® Administrators Guide.

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