Check Point provided us many ways to debug issues. Some are easier, some are harder. The first thing to do when you have dropped traffic is to see whether the packets are being dropped by the firewall or not. The first impulse is to look at SmartView Tracker's logs and …

Do not miss Netflow capability of Check Point Gaia R77 and above. In the past measuring the traffic passing through firewall wasn't easy - you had to either query interface counters via SNMP or run custom Bash scripts on the firewall itself to get interface statistics. The problem with both of …

Usually colorization is put in action via alias : alias ls='ls --color=auto' You can turn off the colors each time you run ls: ls --color=never or change the alias itself to disable fancy colors permanently or even simple \ls . But to change the colors you'd need to cause …

Many times you get to work on some UTM appliance remotely via ssh and need to know which exact model it is. It takes just one cli Expert level command to know: dmidecode | grep "Product Name". Then you go and compare the output with the UTM models table which Tobias …

I was trying the other day to exclude on UTM 1180 gateway some IP address and service combination from being encrypted inside VPN tunnel and noted that any changes you do to the firewall files on the CLI, in this case - crypt.def, do not take effect . It is actually …

Note: For quick reference, I put all the commands below as a cheat sheet PDF: Useful CLI commands for Cisco CUCM, Cisco Unity Connection and IM and Presence I don’t work on the command line of CUCM often, but when the need arises here is the short list of …

Today I was surprised to hear from someone who just took one of the CCNP Security exams that they still test for Reflexive access-lists - what a nostalgy. I was sure it has long been ousted by ip inspect and Zone Based Firewall, but no - it is still tested and still …

There are two ways to be warned when some license or subscription based service from Check Point is about to expire: - Every time we login into the SmartUpdate (part of the SmartConsole suite) if there are any licenses/services to expire within next 30 days we’ll see a pop …

Checkpoint has made available starting with R77.30 this helpful diagnostics and debug utility called cpview of which not many are aware. This is basically a Bash script that runs a bunch of native Checkpoint commands in the background and displays the output on the terminal while updating the data …

The new era of sha-256 (as opposed to sha-1) signed SSL certificates is slowly gaining the pace, not without a gentle push from the browser providers . And Checkpoint is catching up in its new version R77.30 for Open Servers. While on both versions - 77.20 and 77.30 cpopenssl …