Document Outline

• Warnings and cautions
• Contents
• Introduction
  • About this document
  • Revision history
• FortiSwitch-5003A system
  • Front panel LEDs and connectors
    • LEDs
    • Base channel interfaces
    • Fabric channel interfaces
    • Front panel connectors
  • FortiSwitch-5003A configurations
    • Base and fabric gigabit switching within a chassis
    • Fabric 10-gigabit switching within a chassis
    • Layer-2 link aggregation and redundancy configurations
• FortiSwitch-5003 system
  • Front panel LEDs and connectors
    • LEDs
    • About the ZRE network activity LEDs
    • Connectors
  • Base backplane communications
• FortiGate-5140 fabric backplane communication
  • Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis
  • Fabric channel connections between FortiSwitch-5003A boards
  • Fabric gigabit switching between chassis
  • Fabric gigabit switching to the network
  • Fabric 10-gigabit switching within a chassis
  • Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation
  • Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation and redundancy
  • Example active-passive redundant link configuration
    • External switch configuration
    • Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1
      • Verifying the MSTP configuration of the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1
    • Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 2
      • Verifying the MSTP configuration of the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 2
    • Example FortiGate-5001A configuration
  • Example active-active redundant link configuration
    • Verifying the spanning tree configuration of the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1
• FortiGate-5050 fabric backplane communication
  • Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis
  • Fabric channel connections between FortiSwitch-5003A boards
  • Fabric gigabit switching between chassis
  • Fabric gigabit switching to the network
  • Fabric 10-gigabit switching within a chassis
  • Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation
  • Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation and redundancy
  • Example active-passive redundant link configuration
    • External switch configuration
    • Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1
      • Verifying the MSTP tree configuration of the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1
    • Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 2
      • Verifying the MSTP configuration of the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 2
    • Example FortiGate-5001A configuration
  • Example active-active redundant link configuration
    • Verifying the spanning tree configuration of a FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1
• FortiGate-5140 and 5050 base backplane communication
  • Base channel connections between FortiSwitch-5003A boards
  • Base backplane HA configurations
    • Two FortiSwitch boards per chassis
    • Heartbeat failover between channels
    • One FortiSwitch board per chassis
    • Choosing the slot position
    • Slot position and HA heartbeat interface precedence
  • Base backplane data configurations
    • Connecting FortiGate boards to each other
    • Connecting FortiGate boards to the network
• FortiGate-5020 base backplane communication
  • HA configurations
    • Heartbeat failover between channels
  • Inter-chassis HA configurations
  • Network configurations
• FortiSwitch-5003A CLI reference
  • Connecting to the CLI
    • Connecting to the FortiSwitch-5003A console
    • Setting administrative access on the mgmt interface
    • Connecting to the FortiSwitch-5003A CLI using SSH
  • config
    • admin user
      • Syntax
      • Example
    • route static
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • switch fabric-channel interface
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • switch fabric-channel physical-port
      • Syntax
      • Examples
      • Related topics
    • switch fabric-channel stp instance
      • Syntax
      • config stp-port
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • switch fabric-channel stp settings
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • switch fabric-channel trunk
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • system global
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • system interface
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
  • execute
    • backup
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • bootimage
      • Syntax
    • date
      • Syntax
      • Examples
      • Related topics
    • factory-reset
      • Syntax
    • ping
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • reboot
      • Syntax
    • restore
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • shutdown
      • Syntax
    • time
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
    • top
    • traceroute
      • Syntax
      • Example
      • Related topics
  • get
    • system performance
      • Syntax
      • Example
    • system status
      • Syntax
      • Example output
  • diagnose
    • Monitoring the status of trunk members
      • Syntax
      • Example output
    • spanning-tree instance fabric-channel
      • Syntax
      • Example output
    • spanning-tree mst-config fabric-channel
      • Syntax
      • Example output
    • switch fabric-channel mac-address filter
      • Syntax
    • switch fabric-channel mac-address list
      • Syntax
      • Example output
• Index
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