upgrade LOM firmware

dehaasm — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 09:50:41 GMT

We are investigating on how to perform the LOM firmware on 5000 series with current firmware version 3.35 the newest release is 3.43 which can be downloaded here:

https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?action=portlets.DCFileAction&eventSubmit_doGetdcdetails=&fileid=124706

The procedure on how to do that is decribed here

https://dl3.checkpoint.com/paid/73/733690c295a61c638b41ebd8ce744428/CP_Smart-1_5_6_7_13_15_16_21_23_26_28K_LOM_AdminGuide.pdf?HashKey=1673720203_c8234c4033fc61df56d1abf49ba72d76&xtn=.pdf

Now the question in this guide it is clearly mentioned that network link settings, time and SSL cannot be preserved, does this indicate that this has to be performed while having physical access to the device to be able to reconfigure these settings including the IP address of the LOM interface?

Furthermore are there any clear benefits on upgrading the firmware from 3.35 to 3.43 out of your experience?

Lastly someone was trying to perform this via CLI would that be beneficial to prevent loosing access to the LOM interface remotely after upgrade of the firmware?

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Security-Gateways/LOM-Firmware-Update-via-CLI/td-p/148482

Please leave your helpfull thoughts in the comments.

Re: upgrade LOM firmware

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:06:29 GMT

Yes, physical access is needed for the procedure. Please check sk111776 - as firmware version 3.35 is from January 2019 i would rather install firmware version 3.43 from September 2022, see the list of fixed bugs ! Also Note: To make sure all changes are applied when upgrading from previous versions to 3.43, do not use the "Preserve configuration" feature.

Re: upgrade LOM firmware

D_TK — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:15:14 GMT

I've had good luck following this sk92986 regarding setting the IP/mask/gw on a LOM remotely from expert mode.

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