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
firewall
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 - 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.
Checkpoint VSX: Force VS failover
There are several reasons to force a failover on a firewall cluster (in this case a virtual system on a 2 node Checkpoint VSX cluster)