topic Re: Cloud Managed Spark Clusters in Spark Firewall (SMB)

Cloud Managed Spark Clusters

G_W_Albrecht — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:30:14 GMT

Glad to finally see this age-long dream working:

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/SMP/Help/EN/Content/Topics/Adding-HA-Gateways.htm?Highlight=Clustering

Re: Cloud Managed Spark Clusters

nmelay — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:02:11 GMT

Thanks, I did not notice you could (or should?) declare your SMB cluster on the SMP side.

But what if you don't do it?

I only have one SMP-managed cluster, but with both 1570 gateways registered independently, rather than a "Small Office HA".
When I enabled cluster mode, it still said the cluster was managed by Cloud Services, and did not ask for a SIC key.
I had many issues with this cluster when I deployed it initially, but they were caused by the clunky connection monitoring mechanism on SMBs. Or were they?

Re: Cloud Managed Spark Clusters

vladdar — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:48:49 GMT

Hello,

is it possible to add cluster or it's members to the SMP management after the cluster has been already created ?

Thanks.

Re: Cloud Managed Spark Clusters

Tom_Hinoue — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:56 GMT

The cluster could not be connected to SMP if it's already configured.
To connect with SMP, the cluster configuration on the device must be reset, and first initiate trust (SIC) with SMP instead of between the cluster members, and then re-configure the cluster on the device.

Re: Cloud Managed Spark Clusters

vladdar — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:08:24 GMT

that's too bad 😞 but thanks anyway

Re: Cloud Managed Spark Clusters

Tom_Hinoue — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:29:45 GMT

Hi, @vladdar

Just to share, I believe this limitation was lifted in the recent R81.10.15 firmware for Quantum Spark.
We can now configure a cluster locally before connecting to SMP, and then use a single HA activation key provided in the cluster object by Spark Management to connect the locally managed cluster to SMP.

Hope this helps 🙂

Re: Cloud Managed Spark Clusters

vladdar — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:52:32 GMT

Hello Tom,

yes I noticed that but I believe R81.10.15 is still not recommended version and we also had some issues with it when testing. But thanks for a heads up 😉