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Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Jesus_Cano — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:41:18 GMT

Hi,

We are upgrading from R77.30 to R80.20 our checkpoint platform. The SMS is smart1-210. We will do a fresh install and migrate import. But we have doubts about the smartevent upgrade procedure. The smartevent is in the same SMS, not external server. So what is the procedure to upgrade smartevent? do we need to touch anything or enable anything after upgrading to R80.20?

Running the preupgrade verifier, we received this: SmartEvent Server Blade.

Log Indexing. The upgrade process changes the logging to non-indexed mode.

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Vladimir — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:51:40 GMT

You are seeing this because Smart-210 cannot be the Management, SmartLog and SmartEvent at the same time:

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Jesus_Cano — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:46:20 GMT

YEs, we upgraded the RAM memory to 16GB. So now we can have smartevent in the same server, My questions is: which is the procedure to upgrade Smartevent included in the SMS?. DO we need to enable anything? what are the steps to do fro migrate smartevent from R77.30 to R80.20?

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Timothy_Hall — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:50:05 GMT

Um, the Smart-1 210 only has 2 cores. I'm pretty sure 4 cores are required to use SMS w/ SmartEvent, or at least that factor dictates whether SmartEvent is enabled by default. I guess you can enable SmartEvent with 16GB of RAM but the performance with only two cores also trying to perform SMS functions as well will most certainly not be stellar.

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Vladimir — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:56:06 GMT

My point being that you CANNOT run smartevent on the same Smart-1 210 as the SMS at all in the absence of the separate log server capable of indexing:

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

PhoneBoy — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:05:29 GMT

If you're doing a migrate export/import, to migrate the existing event database, see: https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk110173

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Jesus_Cano — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 06:59:09 GMT

OK, we can have smarcenter and smartevent in the same machine SMART1-210 for R80.20?

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Jesus_Cano — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:21:09 GMT

So what is the recommended steps to upgrade SMS with smartevent in the same box. upgrade vía CPUSE or clean installation and migrate import? It neccesary to do anything related to smartevent to work in R80.20 after upgrading?

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

PhoneBoy — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:15:34 GMT

If you do an in-place upgrade, you will not get the benefit of the xfs filesystem that was added in R80.20 (which improves performance a bit).
As such, a migrate export/import is probably a good idea in this case.
If you don't migrate the event database, it will rebuild it from the last 14 days of logs I believe.

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Jesus_Cano — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:02:17 GMT

Just one thing, when you run the clean installation for SMS, you are asked for the product "installing smartcenter primary,secondary or smartevent". So i suppose to configure smartcenter primary, right?. Although then i can enable smartevent in the same box.

Re: Procedure upgrade R80.20 Smartevent

Timothy_Hall — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:30:07 GMT

Select SmartCenter Primary, SmartEvent can be enabled later.