After you Connect Power to the PA-5500 Series Firewall, connect your management computer to the management port on the firewall so you can begin the initial configuration. You can optionally connect your management computer to the console port, which provides a serial connection to the firewall and enables you to view the bootup messages and manage the firewall using the command line interface (CLI).

The following image shows the PA-5540 and PA-5550 cable connections.

The next image shows the PA-5560, PA-5570, and PA-5580 firewall cable connections.