topic Re: SMS Upgrade with migration in Firewall & Security Management

SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:24:47 GMT

Hi Mates,

we are going to upgrade sms server from 80.30 to 81.10. We will go for upgrade with migration. But for migration in the old system there is only %3 free disk place. And customer wants to take all logs to new server. So we can not delete the old files. What would we do in that case?

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:47:31 GMT

Are you able to free up some space?

Andy

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:48:43 GMT

Not so much.

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:49:28 GMT

Like how much?

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:51:02 GMT

Maximum might be % 5 total free place.

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:56:48 GMT

Hm...not too promising. Can you run below and see what you get?

Andy

find /var/log -size +500000000c

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:04:32 GMT

So many things.

/var/log/CPbackup/backups/****************
/var/log/tmp/gaia_backups/******************
/var/log/tmp/gaia_backups/******************
/var/log/tmp/gaia_backups/******************

/var/log/opt/CPsuite-R80.30/fw1/log/2023-05-25_234543_40.log
/var/log/opt/CPsuite-R80.30/fw1/log/2023-06-05_113628_54.log
/var/log/opt/CPsuite-R80.30/fw1/log/2023-05-24_113854_37.log
/var/log/opt/CPsuite-R80.30/fw1/log/2023-06-05_223510_55.log
/var/log/opt/CPsuite-R80.30/fw1/log/2023-04-29_181736_348.log
/var/log/opt/CPsuite-R80.30/fw1/log/2023-05-08_112630_11.log

....long list

and also

/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-05-05T00-00-00/data/index/_1j99_Lucene45_0.dvd
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-05-24T00-00-00/data/index/_1m81_Lucene41_0.doc
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-05-24T00-00-00/data/index/_1m81_Lucene45_0.dvd
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-05-31T00-00-00/data/index/_1mgb_Lucene41_0.doc
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-05-31T00-00-00/data/index/_1mgb_Lucene45_0.dvd
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-06-07T00-00-00/data/index/_16tu_Lucene41_0.doc
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-06-07T00-00-00/data/index/_16tu_Lucene45_0.dvd
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-06-13T00-00-00/data/index/_1n75_Lucene41_0.doc
/var/log/opt/CPrt-R80.30/log_indexes/firewallandvpn_2023-06-13T00-00-00/data/index/_1n75_Lucene45_0.dvd

.........long list

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:07:52 GMT

Just be careful, do NOT delete anything, except the no longer needed .log files. What is the date for the oldest log file you see? Anything from 2022?

Andy

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:09:33 GMT

The oldest log files are unfortunately from 2023 May.

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:20:08 GMT

K, fair enough. I would verify with TAC, but not sure what else they can suggest if there are no older logs to delete, but worth a try.

Good luck mate.

Andy

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

RS_Daniel — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:39:15 GMT

Hello,

Every time i tried to migrate DB with logs i had problems. I would try to copy all log files to an external storage, do the migrate without logs, and then when your new server is running ok, copy log files to your new management and index them.

Regards

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:46:04 GMT

You mean, can I read the logs i by copying the logs file to new management server, can you give me some details about it? And another topic, How can I index it?

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:48:57 GMT

You can use below solution.

Andy

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Management/SmartLog-only-look-back-14-days-how-to-reindex-90-days-back/td-p/23280

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

RS_Daniel — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:07:18 GMT

Yes,

Check sk92920

https://supportcenter.us.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?action=portlets.SearchResultMainAction&eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk92920

Regards

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:51:12 GMT

Thats not for indexing though...more to open the logs in old school tracker.

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:44:42 GMT

@the_rock Do I understood correct? If I migrate only the mgmt database to new mgmt server. Then simply copy the logs files manuelly to new management server. Then according, the link which you sent, indexing. So in that way should log migrate work and can I read the copied logs in the new mgmt server?

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:41:46 GMT

Thats right.

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

starmen2000 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:51:20 GMT

One more question; once clean install is done, should I install actual hotfix before migrate or after migrate. or does not matter?

Re: SMS Upgrade with migration

the_rock — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:53:13 GMT

I always do it after.