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FortiGate-5000 Series Introduction
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Introduction
This FortiGate-5000 Series Introduction is a high-level guide to all three
FortiGate-5000 series chassis and the boards that you can install in them.
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Revision history
• About the FortiGate-5000 series chassis
• About the FortiGate-5000 series boards
• Warnings and cautions
• Fortinet documentation
• Customer service and technical support
• Register your Fortinet product
Revision history
Table 1: Revision History
Version Description of changes
01-30003-0378-20061207 New version.
01-30004-0378-20070201 Corrected “FortiGate-5020 chassis” on page 31 and
“FortiGate-5005FA2 security system” on page 41 to
document that FortiGate-5005FA2 boards can be
installed in a FortiGate-5020 chassis. Added
“Register your Fortinet product” on page 14. Added
“FA2 interfaces and active-active HA performance”
on page 44 and “FA2 interfaces and active-active HA
performance” on page 48. More minor changes and
fixes throughout the document.
01-30000-0378-20070615 Added the following sections:
• “FortiGate-5005-DIST security system” on
page 11
• “FortiController-5208 system” on page 11
• “The FortiGate-5005-DIST security system” on
page 67
• “FortiController-5208 system” on page 73
01-30000-378-20080603 Added “FortiGate-5001A security system” on
page 33.
Terminology change: “module” changed to “board”
for all FortiGate-5000 series boards.
01-30000-83466-20081023 Updated “FortiGate-5001A security system” on
page 33 to include the FortiGate-5001A-SW board.
Added the following sections:
• “FortiGate-RTM-XB2 system” on page 39
• “FortiSwitch-5003A system” on page 53