A Day in the Life of a Check Point Engineer
I’m very pleased that for the second year in a row one of my tools has received a nomination. This year my script vsxexport.sh (released in January 2021) has received a nomination for Toolbox/CodeHub...
Imagine a Life Cycle Management project where you have to upgrade a VSX gateway with new hardware. Imagine a crashed VSX gateway you need to reinstall whether it is on the same or RMA...
Last friday CheckMates introduced a new community space: CheckMates Toolbox. It’s a collection of various tools like scripts, one-liners, SmartConsole extensions, SmartEvent and compliance reports. Tools that are created by and for the CheckMates...
I’m really honoured that two of my code contributions to CheckMates are nominated for Best Contribution of the Year 2020. The first nominated code was published in March. With this script you can bulk...
Since R80.20 GA there is a functionality available called SmartConsole Extensions. This allows you to enhance SmartConsole with the integration of web-components. Customers, vendors, partners and third-parties can create their own SmartConsole extension and...
Following the release of the third edtion of Timothy Hall’s highly recommended book Max Power 2020: Check Point Firewall Performance Optimization my shell script s7pac (Super Seven Performance Assessment Commands) has been updated to...
A new open source tool called CPViewer has been released on CheckMates by community member and Check Point SE Petar95. CPViewer enables you to get visual insights from retreived cpview histories and cpinfo files....
Since January 15th 2019, R80.20 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 17 is considered as Check Point’s default version. This means it’s widely recommended for all deployments. It should now show up as recommended hotfix in...
I am proud to announce a new script called s7pac which stands for Super Seven Performance Assessment Commands. The script is based on the excellent TechTalk ‘Security Gateway Performance Optimization presented by Timothy Hall, author...
Almost a year ago I ran into the CPUSE timeout issue when Saving File Permissions. Last week I ran into a similar problem when creating a snapshot of the same VSX gateway. In a...
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