topic Re: Application Control/URL Filtering updates on R81.10.xx, SMB in Spark Firewall (SMB)

Application Control/URL Filtering updates on R81.10.xx, SMB

Greg_Harbers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:02:01 GMT

All,

Is anyone else having problems with application control and URL filtering updates not working on R81.10.x SMB appliances?

We have over 150 SMB appliances at multiple customers and muliple countries all failing to update with the message "Update failed. Failed to reload Application Control database".

I have a TAC case open however the last response was to upgrade the 1800 appliances (8 out of the 150+ affected devices) to R82 to see if that fixes it, and if it does then R&D wil start to look at what to do with the appliances that cannot be upgraded.

We can see via our monitoring of the affected appliances that the network traffic has increased significantly and CPU utilisation is also higher due to the appliance repeatedly attempting to perform these updates. For our customers that use Starlink for their internet service, this is resulting in them having to pay overage charges as their data caps are being exceeded.

Re: Application Control/URL Filtering updates on R81.10.xx, SMB

PhoneBoy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:44:25 GMT

Are these locally managed, via Spark Management Portal, or Smart-1 (Cloud)?
If you have any TAC cases, please PM me the number.

Re: Application Control/URL Filtering updates on R81.10.xx, SMB

Greg_Harbers — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:42:24 GMT

Hi Dameon,

All of our customer gateways are centrally managed by R82 Smartcenter servers.

I run a 1550 locally managed gateway at home, it appears to be successfully applying AppCtrl/URLF updates.

I have opened SR #6-0004573799

Regards

Greg