Category: Howto

How to add log storage to a SMS on VMware

It turns out that the procedure to add extra (log) storage to a Check Point Management Server (but also Multi-Domain Server, Multi-Domain Logserver and SmartEvent) running on VMware is not known to everyone. WARNING:...

How a local.arp may be ignored

It’s possible when you transfer text files between Linux and Windows with FTP and edit the files on both operating systems the text file will end up with non-printable characters. When opening such a...

Not enough space in the /boot partition

You are preparing an upgrade for a R77.X gateway to R80.10 and suddenly a verify action in CPUSE gives you this result: Verifier results Package: R80.10 Fresh Install and Upgrade from R7X Clean Install:...

The case of revoked SIC certificates

Last week one of our domains on a MDS server (on R80.20 ) displayed SIC errors for all VSX clusters (running on R77.30). When checking the VSX objects in SmartConsole the Trust State was...

How to recover Gaia Admin password on VMware

Today we ran into a situation we needed to recover the Gaia Admin password of a Logserver which was hosted on VMware. Therefore we could not use the procedure to create a EmergenDisk USB...

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