https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184743#M33949 <P>Hi Mates,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I want to create a new vlan on the cluster. After creating via cli or webui,&nbsp;how can I add it on smartconsole. I know that there is option get interfaces with topology or without topology. But I dont want to affect other interfaces. So many times I heard that dont do get interfaces with topology in production.&nbsp; There is also another option add interface manually, but I want to know, How is the best way?&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:50:32 GMT starmen2000 2023-06-26T06:50:32Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184743#M33949 <P>Hi Mates,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I want to create a new vlan on the cluster. After creating via cli or webui,&nbsp;how can I add it on smartconsole. I know that there is option get interfaces with topology or without topology. But I dont want to affect other interfaces. So many times I heard that dont do get interfaces with topology in production.&nbsp; There is also another option add interface manually, but I want to know, How is the best way?&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:50:32 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184743#M33949 starmen2000 2023-06-26T06:50:32Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184767#M33958 <P>Knowledge articles such as sk57100 also recommend 'Get Interfaces Without Topology'</P> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:12:20 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184767#M33958 Chris_Atkinson 2023-06-26T09:12:20Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184842#M33980 <P>On initial setup, using Get Interfaces with Topology is fine.<BR />Once you have a gateway in production, it's generally advisable to not use this option.</P> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:46:27 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184842#M33980 PhoneBoy 2023-06-26T18:46:27Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184844#M33982 <P>What&nbsp;<a href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7">@PhoneBoy</a>&nbsp;said is EXACTLY what literally every customer would suggest. Get interface with topology will "reset" everything to default and that is NOT what you want, when firewall is in production, so I would suggest to always do "without topology". Hope that helps.</P> <P>Andy</P> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:51:06 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/184844#M33982 the_rock 2023-06-26T18:51:06Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259647#M50923 <P>Sorry for picking up an old post, but what about when you have multiple interfaces that they update their topology automatically(based on routing)? This happened to me a few days ago as I kept using the WITHOUT option and networks weren't being added into the network group object under the interface. I had to add them manually thru the mgmt_cli API.</P> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:26:38 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259647#M50923 speedbot33 2025-10-10T13:26:38Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259649#M50924 <P>Perhaps a new thread would be advisable here to describe the use case in more detail and discuss a solution?</P> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:50:32 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259649#M50924 Vincent_Bacher 2025-10-10T13:50:32Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259658#M50926 <P>Just choose route option, its recommended anyway. But as Vince said, better start new post.</P> <P>Andy</P> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:31:03 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259658#M50926 the_rock 2025-10-10T15:31:03Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259660#M50927 <P>Already did, here it is.</P><P><A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/Get-interfaces-WITH-WITHOUT-topology/m-p/259652#M43849" target="_self">https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/Get-interfaces-WITH-WITHOUT-topology/m-p/259652#M43849</A></P> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:33:47 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Get-Interfaces-with-topology/m-p/259660#M50927 speedbot33 2025-10-10T15:33:47Z