Interpret the LEDs on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Interpret the LEDs on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall The following table describes how to interpret the status LEDs on a PA‐5200 Series firewall. Description Front Panel LEDs PWR (Power) Green—The firewall is powered on. Off—The firewall is not powered on or an error occurred with the internal power system (for example, power is not within tolerance levels). STS (Status) Green—The firewall is operating normally. Yellow—The firewall is booting. HA (High Availability) Green—The firewall is the active peer in an active/passive configuration. Yellow—The firewall is the passive peer in an active/passive configuration. Off—High availability (HA) is not operational on this firewall. In an active/active configuration, the HA LED only indicates HA status for the local firewall and has two possible states (green or off); it does not indicate HA connectivity of the peer. Green indicates that the firewall is either active‐primary or active‐secondary and off indicates that the firewall is in any other state (For example, non‐functional or suspended). TMP (Temperature) Green—The firewall temperature is normal. Yellow—The firewall temperature is outside tolerance levels. See Environmental Specifications for the temperature range. FANS Green—The fan trays and all fans are operating normally. Red—One or more fans failed on one or both of the fan trays. To determine which fan tray has a failure, check the system log or check the LED on the fan trays. PWR 1 and PWR 2 (Power) While facing the back of the firewall, power supply 1 (PWR 1) is on the left and power supply 2 (PWR 2) is on the right. Green—The power supply is functioning normally. Red—Power supply is present but is not working. ALM (Alarm) Red—A hardware component failed, such as a power supply failure, a firewall failure that caused an HA failover, a drive failure, or hardware is overheating and the temperature is above the high temperature threshold. Off—The firewall is operating normally.
Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall The PA‐5200 Series firewalls have two solid‐state drives (SSDs) used for system files and system logs and two hard‐disk drives (HDDs) used for network traffic log storage. Each drive pair is in a RAID 1 array so that if a drive fails, you can replace the failed drive (using the same model drive) without service interruption. The system drives are labeled SYS 1 and SYS 2 and the log drives are labeled LOG 1 and LOG 2. When ordering a replacement drive from Palo Alto Networks or your reseller, you receive two drives. This ensures that if the replacement drive is not the same model as the failed drive, you can install two new matching drives. If the replacement drive model is the same as the failed drive, you need only replace one failed drive and can store the second drive as a spare. For firewalls in an HA pair, there is no requirement that the drive sizes match between the paired systems. The procedures to replace a system drive (SSD) and a log drive (HDD) are different. Replace a Log Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a System Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Log Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall The following procedure describes how to replace a failed log drive. There are two scenarios: one where the replacement drive is the same model as the failed drive and one where the replacement drive is not the same model. In a high availability (HA) configuration, if one log drive fails (or if both log drives fail) in the active firewall, the firewall enters the non‐functional HA state and fails over. If the firewall is not in an HA configuration and one log drive fails, the firewall continues to operate. If both log drives fail in a non‐HA configuration, the firewall continues to operate but it does not log network traffic and you cannot commit the configuration until there is at least one functioning log drive. Replace a Log Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Step 1 Identify the failed drive and determine the drive model by running the following operational command to view the and fields: status model admin@PA-5020> show system raid detail The following output shows that the ...
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Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Log Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall (Continued) Step 8 (Same model replacement drive only) Add the replacement drive (that is the same model as the failed drive) to the RAID 1 array: 1. Add the replacement drive to the RAID 1 array. In this example, run the following command to add the LOG 1 drive to the array: admin@PA-5020> request system raid add log1 If the replacement drive was previously used in a different Palo Alto Networks firewall, include the option in this command to force the system to reformat the drive and add it to the array. If force you reboot the firewall after removing the failed drive from the array, the force option is not required. This is because the system will recognize that a drive was missing and it will automatically reformat the newly inserted drive and will add it to the array. 2. Periodically view the RAID status until you see that shows , the status shows Disk Pair Log Available , and the status for each drive shows status. To view RAID status, run the following clean active sync command: admin@PA-5020> show system raid detail The following output shows that both log drives are in the ...
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Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Log Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall (Continued) Step 9 (Different model replacement drive only) Add the replacement drive (that is a different model than the failed drive) to the RAID 1 array: When you initiate the copy command as described in the following steps, logging stops and you cannot view logs until the copy is complete and the disk pair shows Available 1. (Optional) Suspend the firewall with the failed drive if it is the active firewall in an HA configuration. The firewall will fail over when the copy process in this procedures starts but you can choose to Verify Failover or manually suspend the firewall with the failed drive before you continue. 2. Copy the data from the other drive in the RAID 1 array to the replacement drive. In this example, run the following command to copy the data from the drive to the drive: Log2 Log1 admin@PA-5020> request system raid copy from log2 to log1 3. Run the following CLI command to view the status of the copy: admin@PA-5020> show system raid detail Periodically run this command until the copy is complete and the shows Disk Pair Log Available At this point, the ...
Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a System Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall The following procedure describes how to replace a failed system drive. There are two scenarios: one where the replacement drive is the same model as the failed drive and one where the replacement drive is not the same model. If you replace a system drive with a different model drive, you must boot the firewall into the Maintenance Recovery Tool (MRT) to copy data between drives. In a high availability (HA) configuration, suspend the firewall with the failed drive as described in this procedure. In a high availability (HA) configuration, if one system drive fails (or if both system drives fail) in the active firewall, the firewall enters the non‐functional HA state and fails over. If the firewall is not in an HA configuration and one system drive fails, the firewall continues to operate. If both system drives fail in a non‐HA configuration, you will need to replace the systems drives and restore the firewall configuration from a recent configuration backup. Replace a System Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Step 1 Identify the failed drive and determine the drive model. When the system drives are functioning normally, all system drive partitions show both drives with the status . If a system drive fails, the shows , one or more clean Overall System Drives RAID status degraded failed partition array shows , and one of the drives will be missing (Sys1 or Sys2). clean, degraded In this example, the output from the command shows that the drive model is show system raid detail , the panlogs partition shows the status and drive is missing MICRON_M510DC_MT clean, degraded, Sys1...
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Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a System Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall (Continued) Step 3 Confirm that the failed drive is removed from all partitions. In the following output of the show system raid , you see that is now missing from all partitions. detail drive id Sys1 admin@PA-5220> show system raid detail Overall System Drives RAID status degraded -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive status Disk id Sys1 Present (MICRON_M510DC_MT) Disk id Sys2 Present (MICRON_M510DC_MT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Partition status panlogs clean, degraded Drive id Sys2...
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Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a System Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall (Continued) Step 9 (Same model replacement drive only) Add the replacement drive (one that is the same model as the failed drive) to the RAID 1 array: 1. Add the replacement drive to the RAID 1 array. In this example, run the following command to add the SYS 1 drive to the array: admin@PA-5020> request system raid add sys1 If the replacement drive was previously used in a different Palo Alto Networks firewall, include the option in this command to force the system to reformat the drive and add it to the array. If force you reboot the firewall after removing the failed drive from the array, the force option is not required. Because the firewall recognizes that a drive is missing and it will automatically reformat the newly inserted drive and adds it to the array. 2. Periodically view the RAID status until you see that the shows Overall System Drives RAID status , all partitions show , and both drives show . To view RAID status, run the following Good clean active sync command: admin@PA-5020> show system raid detail Do not reboot the firewall until all partitions are ready; otherwise, the system drives may become ...
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Replace a Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall Service the PA‐5200 Series Firewall Replace a System Drive on a PA‐5200 Series Firewall (Continued) Step 10 (Different model replacement drive only) Add the replacement drive (one that is a different model than the failed drive) to the RAID 1 array: 1. Connect a serial cable from your computer to the Console port on the firewall and connect to the firewall using terminal emulation software that is configured to use 9600‐8‐N‐1 settings. 2. (Optional) Suspend the firewall with the failed drive if it is the active firewall in an HA configuration. The firewall fails over when you boot into the Maintenance Recover Tool (MRT) as described in the following step but you can choose to Verify Failover or manually suspend the firewall that contains the failed drive. 3. Reboot the firewall with the failed drive into the MRT by running the following command: admin@PA-5020> debug system maintenance-mode 4. Press enter on CONTINUE and then navigate to RAID and press enter again. 5. Navigate to the Migrate Drive section and select the drive to migrate. In this example, select Migrate drive Sys2 -> Sys1 to initiate the process of copying the system data from the Sys2 drive to the Sys1 replacement drive. 6. After migration is complete, remove the other system drive. In this example, remove the Sys2 drive. 7. Press Esc to go back to the main menu and then press enter on Reboot. 8. After the firewall boots PAN‐OS, replace the other drive in the array so the drives in the array are the same model. In this example, first remove the Sys2 drive from the carrier and install the second replacement drive (one that is the same model as Sys1) into the carrier (see Step 6). Then, install the second replacement drive in slot Sys 2. 9. Add the second replacement drive to the RAID 1 array. In this example, run the following command to add ...
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