topic CHECKPOINT R81.20 ON OPENSTACK in Cloud Firewall

CHECKPOINT R81.20 ON OPENSTACK

siddu099 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:36:47 GMT

Hi Team,

We deployed the Check Point Gateway on an OpenStack (KVM) environment, but it did not go through the initial configuration steps. Instead, it directly shows the login page.

After assigning a public IP with NAT, it opens the Gaia portal, but since no admin account or password was configured and no disk partitioning steps were performed, we are unable to log in. The system automatically picked up the management NIC and presented the login screen without any setup process.

The issue is that we do not have the credentials because the initial configuration wizard did not appear. Kindly advise on how to proceed with accessing and configuring the gateway.

CloudGuard Network Security Gateway for OpenStack (R81.20)

Re: CHECKPOINT R81.20 ON OPENSTACK

Edan_Leventhal — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:55:14 GMT

Hi Siddu,
I doubt you have a method to recover the current situation.

I would recommend using images with the default password as you can find in this sk sk158292 - CloudGuard Network Security for Private Cloud images.
After the deployment you can change the password to what you desire.

The default user and password for these images will be admin | admin

Re: CHECKPOINT R81.20 ON OPENSTACK

siddu099 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:55:55 GMT

Hi Edan,

We can see there are two types of images with default centennials

ivory_main-634-991001608_unsecured.qcow2

jaguar_opt_main-777-991001696-GW.qcow2

Which one we can use for our OpenStack 17.1

Re: CHECKPOINT R81.20 ON OPENSTACK

Jeff_Engel — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:18:59 GMT

Hi @siddu099 ,

For gateway only images that contain the default credentials select either:

R82 > jaguar_opt_main-777-991001696-GW_unsecured.qcow2

R81.20 > ivory_main-634-991001608-GW_unsecured.qcow2

Best Regards,

Jeff

Re: CHECKPOINT R81.20 ON OPENSTACK

the_rock — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:49:51 GMT

Just use what Jeff suggested, those are 100% right ones.

Andy