topic Re: Show VPN tunnels status directly in SmartConsole R81? in Firewall and Security Management

Show VPN tunnels status directly in SmartConsole R81?

Danny — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 21:36:31 GMT

Is R81/R81.10 able to list VPN site-to-site tunnels directly in SmartConsole (i.e. without legacy SmartView Monitor) ?

via SmartEvent Views?
- has anyone created a view / report for listing VPN tunnels status?
via API calls / mgmt_cli
- could also be run as a Gaia script that would be triggered from SmartConsole via a run-script command
via SmartConsole Extension utilizing the run-script command?
- would be on me to create such tool, I guess.
native?
- maybe I just didn't see it yet

Especially with Web SmartConsole then demand for a direct listing on VPN tunnels becomes more valid as legacy SmartView Monitor isn't available via web.

Re: Show VPN tunnels status directly in SmartConsole R81?

Kim_Moberg — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 21:52:10 GMT

I did ask RnD to include vpn tu features in Gaia API but was told to use run-script commands.

I was just thinking it would be must smarter to call json file to check state of a vpn tunnel and get a result in json too.

Vpn reset etc

would be better to have Check Point to support it than having a 3rd party to maintain script etc

just my though and idea

Re: Show VPN tunnels status directly in SmartConsole R81?

Danny — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:11:28 GMT

Thanks for your feedback.

I was hoping that a SmartEvent View could help as a workaround to show a VPN tunnels list with tunnel status.

'run_script' has some limitations, for example it doesn't work (well) with Smart-1 Cloud.

I'll see if I can cook something smart&simple together that will work as a SmartConsole Extension. I can't believe Check Point still doesn't natively show VPN tunnels in their R8x SmartConsole.

Re: Show VPN tunnels status directly in SmartConsole R81?

Danny — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:00:26 GMT

After reviewing the available options I think I'll start with vpn tu tlist and web-format that output nicely for presenting it within a SmartConsole Extension.