topic Re: Geolocation deprecated? in Firewall and Security Management

Geolocation deprecated?

Tony_Graham — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:37:54 GMT

I logged into SmartConsole this morning and had 4 alerts.

All of my updateable objects concerning Geolocation and Geolocation itself

are listed as no longer supported. What is the new method for blocking ranges

of IP's by country if this is no longer supported. We have been basking in the

reduced spam and phishing attempts since implementing geolocation. Why take it away?

Re: Geolocation deprecated?

Dima_M — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:47:36 GMT

Hi Tony,

It's not. works in my lab. Had you tested connectivity to updates.checkpoint.com? See sk122636 for troubleshooting

Re: Geolocation deprecated?

Tony_Graham — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:56:02 GMT

I am not having issues with updates.checkpoint.com.

It is popping validation errors for geolocation objects only when I log in.

The message is: Object is no longer available.

Geolocation is no longer supported.Enforcing security for this object is not possible.

To dismiss this message delete the object.

Re: Geolocation deprecated?

MikeB — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:18:56 GMT

Hi Tony_Graham, this is a known issue documented in sk164772 - Updatable objects appear as 'no longer supported'.

The solution is simple, just run these commands on the Security Management Server:

cloudguard stop
cloudguard start

Re: Geolocation deprecated?

Tomer_Noy — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:07:51 GMT

I know that it's a concerning alert to get in the UI, but it's worth mentioning that the issue is cosmetic and does not affect the actual enforcement on the gateway.

Re: Geolocation deprecated?

Itzel_Gtz26 — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:20:32 GMT

Hello

What is the impact of running these commands? Can I do it at any time?

Re: Geolocation deprecated?

PhoneBoy — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:23:10 GMT

It should not cause an outage.
However, while restarting the CloudGuard Controller, you won't get updates for your Updatable Objects.