topic Re: Policy Installation Status in Firewall and Security Management

Policy Installation Status

Alex- — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:43:50 GMT

Minor detail, but it appears that in the latest Smart Console builds, the small curved arrows in the Policy Installation window don't rotate anymore. Observed in various versions, different clients and Windows versions.

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:09:05 GMT

Can you send a screenshot? I cant think of what feature that is now lol

Re: Policy Installation Status

CaseyB — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:08:47 GMT

I have observed the same thing.

Re: Policy Installation Status

Vincent_Bacher — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:44:08 GMT

But nothing escapes the mates! 😄

I must admit that I never really noticed that. Nevertheless, I guessed which icons were meant, and when I pushed a policy in our management today, I thought more along the lines of, "They used to be animated, and I never really noticed that?" 🙂

Re: Policy Installation Status

CaseyB — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:53:03 GMT

lol fersure!

I only noticed it because I use it as an indicator of when the policy is almost done installing. Normally one of the circles freezes before it moves to "Succeeded".

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:54:49 GMT

You got that right hehe

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:58:17 GMT

Just tested in the lab, yes, exact same thing, though truth be told, I never noticed that they used to rotate 🙂

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:03:14 GMT

FWIW, I tested web smart console and indeed, I can see arrows rotation, so most likely something with newest build of standalone Smart Console.

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:09:30 GMT

I know this is super minor, but you got me curious to see if there is way to fix it. I will play around in the lab, see how far I get.

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:01:36 GMT

I also tried compatibility mode, running smart console app as admin, unchecking accelerated policy option, same issue. Even compared with web smart console, all looks exactly the same, which only logically leads me to conclude this is the actual change in new version of smart console.

Maybe someone from Check Point can confirm.

Re: Policy Installation Status

Vincent_Bacher — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:45:53 GMT

Since we are currently experiencing a load problem at MDS and I got a timeout, I got creative for a moment.

You could add your own animation with SmartConsole Extension. I started playing around.......

(view in My Videos)

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:07:34 GMT

When I read an email about your post, I thought it was an actual possible fix, but still, very cool : - )

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:49:16 GMT

Just rebooted my lab, so lets see if we can make any headways with this 🙂

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:06:51 GMT

Maybe I just got lucky in this case, but here is what I tried and it worked once both times and thats it.

1) tested high contrast theme *ctrl + F3 option, saw animation first time during policy install, not again

2) uninstalled smart console, insalled one from web UI link, tried again, same thing, worked first time, not after that

Re: Policy Installation Status

Vincent_Bacher — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:07:02 GMT

With me, there is always the risk that I will write complete nonsense. 😉

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:08:41 GMT

haha...Im sure you meant to tag @the_rock when you said that 😂

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:10:23 GMT

But, on a serious note, I still find it odd this works in web smart console, but not in standalone one. FWIW, its 100% clear issue is with newest build, because I tested one before, no issues, animation is there.

Re: Policy Installation Status

the_rock — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:23:17 GMT

Hey Alex,

I worked with TAC today on an unrelated case and since this was bugging me as well, and my case was related to the management, I told the guy abouit this post and he did indeed confirm that this rotation thing was removed in latest smart console build, 673. He told me it will be there in R82.10 for sure.