Cable The Fast Ethernet Monitoring Ports; Cable The Gigabit Ethernet Monitoring Ports; Cable A Failover Pair - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Manual

McAfee® Network Security Platform 6.0

Cable the Fast Ethernet monitoring ports

The FE ports available on some Sensor models fail-open and require no extra hardware;
simply connect your cables to a port pair (For example: 1A-1B).
Fail-closed mode for FE ports requires use of the fail-closed dongles on each connecting
cable of the port pair. The fail-closed dongles provided with the Sensor are designed to
complement 10/100 monitoring port functionality. You plug the dongles into a Sensor's
10/100 monitoring port, and then connect a Cat 5/Cat 5e cable to the dongles.

Cable the Gigabit Ethernet monitoring ports

Fail-Open mode for Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports requires use of the external Gigabit Fail-
open Kit. This kit includes a Gigabit Bypass Switch and an adaptor that connects the
switch to the Sensor.
Note:
your fiber cables to the GE port pair (For example: 1A-1B).
For information on how to cable the Sensor with a Gigabit Fail-Open Kit, see the
documentation that accompanies the kit. For example, the Gigabit Copper Kit includes the
Gigabit Copper Fail-Open Kit Guide

Cable a failover pair

Failover requires connecting the paired Sensors via an interconnection cable or cables.
Communication between paired Sensors maintains the failover heartbeat and state
information.
There is no standard heartbeat port across all the Sensor models. The port or ports you
use to connect the two Sensors depends on the Sensor model. The Sensor models and
their failover interconnection ports are described below.
I-4010
I-4000
I-3000
I-2700
I-1400
I-1200
Fail-closed mode for GE ports requires no extra hardware; simply connect
.
Sensor Failover port
HA1 and HA2 (6A and 6B)
2A and 2B
HA1 and HA2 (6A and 6B)
4A
Response port 1 (R1)
Response port 1 (R1)
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Install and cable the Sensor