topic Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics in SmartConsole Extensions

RAS VPN Statistics

Danny — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 21:26:15 GMT

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ℹ️ Supported from R80.30+

SmartConsole Extension to show a summary about the remote access statistics of a VPN gateway.
Extension URL: https://dannyjung.de/vpnstat.json

Uses the One-liner developed in this thread.

VSX gateways aren't supported yet (need to implement loading of VS environment and changing to VS)

Thanks to @PhoneBoy for license macro information in this thread. [ VPN License Guide ]
Thanks to @HristoGrigorov for SMB support and testing.
Thanks to @Eugene_Grybinny for describing the task-id, show-task process.
Thanks to CheckMates for these Remote Access SmartEvent Reports: Basic, Enhanced, Application Monitoring, Custom User Stats

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

PhoneBoy — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 04:40:05 GMT

Nice work!

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

HristoGrigorov — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 08:44:08 GMT

CheckPoint, I really really hope you understand how much am I frustrated of not being able to use this marvelous extension on my centrally managed SMBs!!!

I want this escalated right away and product manager to contact me with an explanation why so! And please skip "this is not on product roadmap" mumbo-jumbo... 😆

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Wolfgang — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:24:21 GMT

nice

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

MartinTzvetanov — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:48:10 GMT

Hello,

Cool tool but it works only in my lab with R80.40 :-).

I sent it to three of our customers:
1. R80.30 - after clicking on show statistics only a bracket is shown "(". Running the script manually on SSH it shows correct info.
2. R80.20 - impossible to add the json - it says The manifest is not valid.
3. R80.30 - no feedback yet.

Does it depends on the SmartConsole version or CheckPoint version or anything else? Any additional setting that must be turned on/off to make it work? Any file for debug info?
KR

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Danny — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:03:14 GMT

Hi @MartinTzvetanov ,

thanks for your feedback on my SmartConsole Extension (SMX).

This happens when the customer doesn't confirm the user dialog after clicking the button. I'm still waiting on Check Points SMX team for advice how to handle these case in order to show a better result.
These SmartConsole Extensions are supported from R80.30+.

You can turn on debugs in SmartConsole just above the SMX import section.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

MartinTzvetanov — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:59:14 GMT

Hi @Danny,

1. Click Show statistics -> Confirm the job and then nothing. I expect the second confirmation but it doesn't happen.

2. Make sense 🙂

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Danny — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:08:07 GMT

Are you using the latest SmartConsole R80.30 (Build 62)? After confirming the task the SmartConsole should run it and show it's progress in the taskbar.

If no task is started on your side, you'll need to open a SR with Check Point support.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

MartinTzvetanov — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:12:05 GMT

No task is started after the confirmation. I though that the problem might be with an old version of the SmartConsole but didn't have enough time to check it. I'll do it and update here

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Eduardo_Pereira — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:28:47 GMT

Hi @Danny

Thanks for that again!

Just a quick feedback on Gateways running IaaS flavors, it is showing as "Not a VPN Gateway"

I run my personal lab on Azure and I´m getting that message.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Danny — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:38:38 GMT

Hi @Eduardo_Pereira ,

please have a look at the originating One-liner and how it is identifying VPN gateways. Please advice how to adopt it to your Azure Gateway.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Eduardo_Pereira — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:19:17 GMT

As tested earlier, the one-liner works!

Hehe, I´m not quite sure why the script in SmartConsole had a different output.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Eduardo_Pereira — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:29:07 GMT

I'm not quite sure if you changed something on the code, but now it works!!

Tiny typo on the LICENSES table.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

MattGB7 — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:27:37 GMT

Hi @Danny , Great one liner and the extension looks amazing. When testing with SmartConsole 993000062 this causes the console to crash. The extension has been added, when I click "Show Statistics" and then aprove the changes by clicking "OK" I get "SmartConsole has experieanced a serious problem and needs to re-launch"

Any ideas?

Matt

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

KS — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:11:08 GMT

Hello

I have similar problems. Oneliner works fine on the GW when run as a script, but installed as a console extension causes it to crash or not providing any output - "Processing"

Testes on r80.30 JHF 155, SC xxx20 and xxx62 both had the same issue.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Danny — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:33:42 GMT

Did you already write to extensions@checkpoint.com ? Please send them the debug files described by @Tomer_Sole in this post.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

MartinTzvetanov — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:34:39 GMT

I did few tests and here are the results:

Updated to the latest SmartConsole - still no task is started. I played with the script and run it from the SmartConsole Script option and it said Not a VPN gateway. The one-liner script runs smoothly. The GWs are 6500, something related to the image that is installed?

However, I created a script in the script repository and it does the job.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Matthias_Kring — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:31:16 GMT

The extension is installed properly, but after starting, I only get "ESC to cancel" message. Nothing els happens.

The one-liner script runs fine.

However, I noticed several Administrator login failures with unknown reason coming from the same PC where Smartvonsole is running. Do I need to set som credentials ?

(Console 80.30 993000062)

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

Danny — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:35:15 GMT

Did you already write to extensions@checkpoint.com ? Please send them the debug files described by @Tomer_Sole in this post.

Re: SmartConsole Extension - Remote Access VPN Statistics

KS — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:37:27 GMT

Hello again

Funny thing ....

Tested it again, installed extenstion on SC xxx62 and this time it works flawless.

Nothing has changed in last 3 hours, looks like removing and installing extension back somehow did the trick. Strange.

In this case there is no point for me to do a debug 😉