A Day in the Life of a Check Point Engineer
Today Jumbo Hotfix Take 213 for R77.30 has been released. This take integrates the recently released seperate security hotfix for DLP and Threat Extraction blades. This seperate security hotfix can only be installed on top of Jumbo Hotfix Take 205.
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Probably a few weeks ago I was asked to take a look at a Check Point 1100 cluster with Gaia Embedded R77.20.31 on it which had one member with a Down status. This is not a production cluster so when a reboot solved the problem we did not spend more time to investigate this issue deeper. Until then this only happened once.
But yesterday it happened again…
Recently I had to install a Jumbo Hotfix on a R77.30 VSX cluster for a customer. I made sure CPUSE was updated to the latest version.
When the Jumbo Hotfix installation was in progress I noticed that the status ‘Saving File Permissions’ did not finish. It looked like if this process was hanging. We waited a long time, but in the end the installation of the Jumbo Hotfix was simply cancelled without any warning or message being displayed.
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Another Check Point Youtube Channel is Check Point Training Bytes. In these two videos they discuss the management database and tools to modify the Check Point Management database. In just 1 hour you’ll know a lot more about Management server.
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Another Check Point Youtube Channel is Check Point Training Bytes. In these two videos they explain CoreXL. In just 1 hour you’ll know a lot more about CoreXL.
Our friends back at Check Point have multiple Youtube Channels. This video is from the Check Point Support Channel. A few weeks ago they started a new series explaining performance optimization on Security Gateways. This is the fifth video of that series where they explain SecureXL. SecureXL is a software acceleration product installed on Security Gateways.
Continue reading “Security Gateway Performance Optimization – Part 5”
Our friends back at Check Point have multiple Youtube Channels. This video is from the Check Point Support Channel. A few weeks ago they started a new series explaining performance optimization on Security Gateways. This is the fourth video of that series where they explain SecureXL. SecureXL is a software acceleration product installed on Security Gateways.
Continue reading “Security Gateway Performance Optimization – Part 4”
Our friends back at Check Point have multiple Youtube Channels. This video is from the Check Point Support Channel. A few weeks ago they started a new series explaining performance optimization on Security Gateways. This is the third video of that series where they explain CoreXL. CoreXL is a performance-enhancing technology for Security Gateways on multi-CPU-core processing platforms.
Continue reading “Security Gateway Performance Optimization – Part 3”
Our friends back at Check Point have multiple Youtube Channels. This video is from the Check Point Support Channel. A few weeks ago they started a new series explaining performance optimization on Security Gateways. This is the second video of that series where they explain the tool cpsizeme for creating a detailed performance report of Check Point Security Gateway
Continue reading “Security Gateway Performance Optimization – Part 2”
Our friends back at Check Point have multiple Youtube Channels. This video is from the Check Point Support Channel. A few weeks ago they started a new series explaining performance optimization on Security Gateways. This is the first video, an introduction to the series.
Continue reading “Security Gateway Performance Optimization – Part 1”