ASA Security Appliance 55X0 Front Panel
The firewalls in the ASA Security Appliance family of firewalls are rack mountable and have
a 1U footprint once installed. As shown in Figure 3-14, all ASA Security Appliances feature
five LEDs on the front panel. The power LED illuminates if the ASA Security Appliance is
powered on. The status LED indicates the boot state of the ASA Security Appliance. When
the LED is green, the appliance booted successfully. If the LED displays a red light, it has
failed to correctly boot up and should be examined. The active LED flashes as traffic flows
Table 3-6 Cisco PIX 535 Licenses
License Function
Restricted Software License Support for 512 MB of RAM and up to eight 10/100 interfaces
or eight Gigabit interfaces
Unrestricted Software License Support for 1 GB of RAM, up to 10 10/100 interfaces or 9
Gigabit interfaces, stateful failover, integrated VAC or VAC+,
and 50 security contexts
Failover Software License Support for a “hot standby” system designed to operate in
conjunction with an active system running the unrestricted
license
NOTE The installation of additional interfaces and failover requires that the software
license be upgraded from the Restricted Bundle.
NOTE The PIX 506E through 535 Firewall appliances all have an onboard USB port. At
this time, the USB port is not used.
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through the appliance. If any active VPN tunnels terminate on the appliance, the VPN LED
will light. The Flash LED will blink whenever the system flash is accessed.
As illustrated in Figure 3-15, the Adaptive Security Appliances include one expansion slot, a
Compact Flash slot, fixed Ethernet interfaces, and two USB 2.0 ports (currently unused by
the operating system), as well as a standard Cisco Console and AUX port.