Checkpoint - Script to monitor VPN tunnel state with Icinga
In this post we'll walk through a practical solution—a Bash script that uses SNMP to monitor the state of VPN tunnels in
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Checkpoint - API service not running, error 503
When trying to call the Checkpoint management API i received a generic 503 error like this:
[Expert@mgmt_server:0]# mgmt_cli login user "
Check Point - SmartConsole stuck "Loading SmartView"
I came accross a problem in which a perpetual loading screen with the message "Loading SmartView" was shown when attempting to open a
Checkpoint - Identity Awareness/AD continuous "Failed Login" errors
Check Point Identity Awareness module provides visibility into network traffic, allowing organizations to enforce security policies based granular control over user access.
Recently, I encountered
Checkpoint - Policy installation failed. Error code: 0-2000040
This morning i have come across a Checkpoint problem: No way to perform a succesful policy installation in any of the several virtual system gateways
Checkpoint - /var/log full (possible cause)
Yesterday I realized (after checking the backup of one of my gateways was failing) that the /var/log partition was 100% full:
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Checkpoint - Custom application signature ACST
This time I show you the Checkpoint “Application Control Signature Tool”. This tool allows you to create your own Apps and URL filtering signatures.
For
Checkpoint - Useful SNMP OIDs to monitor (VSX)
It is very important to keep your Checkpoint environment monitored. Given that it offers a wide variety of SNMP data, I have collected some of
Checkpoint - Unexpected high cpu usage and SecureXL
Last monday I realized that the cpu was very high on one of my Checkpoint VSX nodes.
Looking at my Icinga graphs it seemed it
Checkpoint - VSX Virtual Memory full - Enable 64 bit
Symptoms
I manage a 2 node VSX clusterXL environment that hosts 3 firewalls (virtual systems).
Some days ago I came across a problem in which
Checkpoint – Database Revision Control
“Database Revision Control” is a really useful feature when you are going to make important and/or many changes in the firewall policy, objects…
To
Checkpoint - GAIA commands to check backup status and logs
I have configured my VSX appliances to perfom scheduled backups every week. Today, my icinga monitoring system has raised an alert informing that VSX2 backup
Checkpoint - dropped Reason: UDP packet that belongs to an old session
Problem
Last week I came across a DHCP problem. Devices from certain VLAN were not getting DHCP assigned IP.
Even though firewall policy should have
Checkpoint - Delay before password prompt when logging via SSH
When connecting to checkpoint gateways, there may be a delay of 5 or more seconds when waiting for the password prompt. This is due a
Checkpoint - Incrementing virtual system instances to solve cpu overload
Due to some network infrastructure changes, the traffic passing through my internal FW (a Checkpoint VSX virtual system) started to suffer latency and packet loss.