Cisco Firepower 2120 Hardware Installation Manual page 12

Front Panel
Management Port
The Firepower 2100 chassis has an RJ-45 copper management port.
RJ-45 Console Port
The Firepower 2100 chassis has a standard RJ-45 console port. You can use the command-line interface
(CLI) to configure your 2100 through the RJ-45 serial console port by using a terminal server or a
terminal emulation program on a computer.
The RJ-45 (8P8C) port supports RS-232 signaling to an internal UART controller. The console port
does not have any hardware flow control, and does not support a remote dial-in modem. The baud rate
is 9600. You can use the standard cable found in your accessory kit to convert the RJ45 to DB9 if
necessary.
Type A USB Port
You can use the external Type A USB port to attach a data-storage device. The external USB drive
identifier is
The Type A USB port does NOT support Cisco Secure Package (CSP) image upload support.
Network Ports
The Firepower 2100 chassis has 12 fixed RJ-45 1G/100M/10M) ports. They are numbered from top to
bottom, left to right starting with 1 and are named Ethernet 1/1 through Ethernet 1/12.
The 2110 and 2120 also have four fixed SFP (1G) ports, and the 2130 and 2140 have four fixed SFP+
(1G/10G) ports. They are fiber ports numbered left to right (1/13 through 1/16).
Each port has LEDs that represent Link/Activity status.
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. The Type A USB port supports the following:
disk1:
• OIR
• USB drive formatted with FAT32
• Boot kickstart image from ROMMON for discovery recovery purposes
• Copy files to and from workspace:/ and volatile:/ within local-mgmt. The most relevant files are:
◦ Core files
◦ Ethanalyzer packet captures
◦ Tech-support files
◦ Security module log files
• Platform bundle image upload using download image usbA:
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