topic Re: Maestro Third Party Transceivers compatibility in Hyperscale Firewall (Maestro)

Maestro Third Party Transceivers compatibility

RS_Daniel — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:32:00 GMT

Hello CheckMates,

We are working in a new maestro deployment and customer asked us if we can use to use some Cisco QSFP-40G-SR4-S transceivers on uplink ports 40 Gbps / 100 Gbps on a pair of MHO - 140 orchestrators. Plugged one transceiver in to test but the interface status shows "No link".

Used this oneliner https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Scripts/Show-Maestro-Transceiver-Status-One-liner/m-p/134483#M891

from Danny, an it shows transceiver status as "Unsupported". Wanted to ask if it is possible to use third party transceivers on maestro orchestrators in some way. For example on Cisco it is possible to enable this with "service unsupported-transceiver" command, is this possible on CheckPoint/Maestro?. We have already checked sk92755, but it only talks about CheckPoint transceivers, not third parties. Also asked TAC, but the answer is that they do not have any records about this. Thanks in advance.

Regards

Re: Maestro Third Party Transceivers compatibility

Chris_Atkinson — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:44:58 GMT

Indeed this is not supported on any Check Point appliances.

Re: Maestro Third Party Transceivers compatibility

_Val_ — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:45:15 GMT

Not supported, will not work.

Re: Maestro Third Party Transceivers compatibility

the_rock — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:35:00 GMT

I had seen one customer make this work in the past. I never really asked them how, because its 100% not supported and it totally voids the warranty.

Re: Maestro Third Party Transceivers compatibility

Marco32 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:12:12 GMT

Hi all,

according with the script shared to check te status of the GBIC on the Orchestrator, I need to ask you a little bit.

We have a 3th party GBIC plugged on a port, if I run the script it says:

--------------- Port: 15 ---------------

State : Active
Speed : CX
Auto Negotiation : ON

Status Opcode : 0
Group Opcode : N/A
Recommendation : No issue was observed.

Identifier : SFP28/SFP+
Compliance : N/A
Vendor Name : CISCO
Vendor Part Number : FTLF8518P4BNL-C1
Vendor Serial Number : FNS235005J4
Transfer Distance [m] : 0

But at the end of the script it says:

Transceiver Enforcement status is 'unsupported' for the following ports: 15

How to address it? "Recommendation : No issue was observed." and "Transceiver Enforcement status is 'unsupported'"

Is this GBIC good for Maestro?

Regards

Re: Maestro Third Party Transceivers compatibility

Chris_Atkinson — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:04:50 GMT

Only Check Point supplied SFP transceivers are supported in our appliances.

sk92755 - Compatibility of transceivers for Check Point appliances