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18401

INFO - https sites not working, zdebug errors PSL Drop: MUX_PASSIVE and PSL Drop: TLS_PARSER

18400

inside

Explorer

18400

How do I test if IPS is Working?

18400

inside

Authority

18400

Objects and Rulebases on R80.10

18400

Solved

inside

Participant

18399

"mgmt_cli login" triggers err_login_failed and only works using "-r true"

18399

inside

Participant

18398

Migrate R77.30 standalone system to R80.10 Distributed system

18398

Solved

inside

Participant

18304

Connections dropped during Connectivity Upgrade

18304

inside

Employee

18301

Using Wireshark to capture packets on Firewall using standard out.

18301

inside

Collaborator

18300

R80.20.M2 Management - Finalizing Stuck at 99% During Policy Installs

18300

Solved

inside

Advisor

18300

Management Server is stuck - user is unable to run any command, seen many times!

18300

Solved

inside

Participant

18299

How to get specific Jumbo take

18299

Solved

inside

Mentor

18299

How does R80 assist in saving time handling activation of IPS protections?

18299

inside

Collaborator

18298

Strange ( periodic ) packet loss

18298

inside

Contributor

18205

How to reset counters on interfaces

18200

Solved

inside

Contributor

18199

Smart-1 600-S server acting as main log server

18199

inside

Authority

18199

Monitoring of Anti-Spoofing traffic

18199

inside

Advisor

18199

Traceroute logs on Layered policy - R81.10

18199

inside

Contributor

18199

Switching Identity Awareness AD - NTLMv1 to NTLMv2

18199

inside

Collaborator

18099

BLOCK BAD REPUTATION IPS IN A DYNAMIC WAY

18099

inside

Contributor

18000

How can Checkpoint optimize I/O performance with SSD's?

18000

Solved

inside

Collaborator

17999

Checkpoint r80.10 block ip feed and send logs to rsyslog server

17999

inside

Contributor

17999

Check Point Endpoint Security Client changes ip number of the Site

17999

Solved

inside

Participant

17999

Installation failed on one of Active gateway: Failed - Installation failed. Reason: Load on Module failed - failed to load Security Policy.

17999

inside

Participant

17998

Check Point sizing solution for VMware.

17998

inside

Champion

17987

R77.30 First Time Wizard stuck after definition of Management Connection.

17987

Solved

inside

Participant

17902

How to Migrate running config from R77.30 to R80.10?

17902

inside

Advisor

17900

Advanced Troubleshooting with SmartEvent

17900

inside

Participant

17900

Scheduled report for VPN users usage

17899

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

17899

Policy push overwrote default route on cluster active gateway

17899

inside

Participant

17899

R81.10 - Export/Import policy package

17899

Solved

inside

Contributor

17899

Phase 2 Site-to-site VPN error

17899

inside

Collaborator

17800

Run inventory to get the MAC address

17800

inside

Employee Alumnus

17800

How to change the IP address of a R77.30 Multi Domain Management Server(MDS)

17800

inside

MVP Gold CHKP

17800

Disable NAT-T in Checkpoint GW.

17799

Solved

inside

Collaborator

17799

configure Proxy Arp on VSX cluster firewall

17798

Solved

inside

Advisor

17701

Import package failed with CPUSE

17701

inside

Employee Alumnus

17700

Exclude CPM traffic from implied rules

17700

inside

Explorer

17700

SmartEvent email notifications

17700

Solved

inside

Explorer

17699

Generic.TC.gjgwrm verbose discription

17699

inside

MVP Diamond

17699

Check and config SSHv1 or SSHv2 on GAIA

17699

Solved

inside

Participant

17699

Anti-Spoofing on Interfaces which have not been updated / configured on SmartDashboard

17699

inside

Contributor

17699

MTA Threat Extraction / Emulation Workflow ?

17699

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

17699

SAML identity provider auth issue

17699

inside

Participant

17698

Can we install R80.10 Smart console on Ubuntu 16.04

17698

inside

Participant

17698

get interfaces operation failed

17698

Solved

inside

Explorer

17696

Any tool to build a rulebase from an "Any-Any Accept" rule?

17696

inside

Advisor

17600

Interpreting the output of fwaccel conns table

17600

Solved

inside

Participant

17600

R77.30 Evaluation Licensing Keep Getting Assigned Local License Type

17600

inside

Champion

17600

CPLog to Syslog for R80 Managed environments

17600

inside

Explorer

17599

Checkpoint dynamic MTU value over IPSEC tunnel

17599

inside

Contributor

17599

IPS protection track and approval process

17599

inside

Collaborator

17599

How can I see internet traffic?

17599

inside

Participant

17599

URL filtering blade (RAD process) causing high CPU tip

17503

inside

Contributor

17500

r80.20 - Application Control - HTTP parsing error occurred (2)

17500

inside

Champion

17499

Proxy ARP after upgrade to R80.30

17499

Solved

inside

Explorer

17499

SmartConsole Send by Email function not showing Email Recipients

17499

Solved

inside

Participant

17499

How to set syslog severity grade log send to syslog server

17499

inside

Participant

17498

IPsec VPN - Gateway not responding

17498

inside

Collaborator

17401

"max concurrent sessions per connection exceeded"

17401

inside

Explorer

17400

Enabled SecureXL means no traffic

17400

Solved

inside

Advisor

17399

How can I test SMTP connection in SmartEvent

17399

inside

Admin

17399

Dynamic CLI and Gaia APIs TechTalk and Q&A

17399

inside

Participant

17399

Certificate Renewal - how is this task processed - Reporting options required

17399

Solved

inside

Collaborator

17399

Remote Access - SSH to Gateway

17399

inside

Employee

17399

CPUSE tries to access unkown non checkpoint or akamai ip-addresses

17300

inside

Participant

17300

HTTPS Inspection Limiting TCP receive window to 262144 bytes and limiting throughput of tcp stream

17300

inside

Explorer

17299

IPsec Checkpoint R80.10 and Fortinet issue. Only traffic in one direction.

17299

inside

Explorer

17299

command to check the hotfix version installed in Gaia

17299

inside

Employee Alumnus

17299

Tufin integration with Check Point R80.docx

17299

inside

MVP Gold

17299

What are fw monitor chain position c and r

17299

Solved

inside

Participant

17200

A Practical Quantum Approach to Automation: Built, Tested, and Shared

279

inside

MVP Diamond

287

Simplifying Interface Configuration on GWs Quantum

287

inside

Contributor

784

R81.20 Failed to resolve VPN MEP gateway

784

inside

Explorer

333

🚀 Web SmartConsole Take 155 - Coming This Week!

6464

inside

MVP Diamond

684

IPS: How to Filter Events by CVE/Protection and Troubleshoot Signatures (Real-Time + Historical)

684

inside

Explorer

1433

Why the IPS blade prevent Checkpoint update.

1433

Solved

inside

Contributor

575

Compliance poor security - VPN114

575

inside

Participant

350

After upgrading management to R82, nat hitcount does not work on gateway on R81.20

350

Solved

inside

Participant

836

BankBot banking trojan got into Google Play again, this time embedded in a game called ‘Jewels Star Classic’.

2095

inside

Explorer

414

SIC error 325 on Install Policy — R82.10 Cross-AZ Cluster in AWS

1574

inside

Advisor

1960

Sending Syslog to logging server pt 2

1960

inside

MVP Diamond

549

DynamicID with email OTP not sending OTP

859

inside

Collaborator

573

Customize Field/Column Suggestions for Log Search?

828

Solved

inside

Collaborator

1156

Threat Emulation policy action "Send"

1156

inside

Collaborator

3117

Checkpoint Backup using SolarWind NCM

3117

inside

Collaborator

1332

Multi-Domain (MDS/DMS) — HA, Sync, and Advanced Troubleshooting (Field Runbook)

596

inside

Employee

442

Bash script for IP Address Report Generator

442

inside

Employee

358

Bash application to copy CMA policy with the MDS command line

358

inside

Explorer

359

Adding Exception Source have multiple IP

359

inside

Explorer

323

Question regarding cloning Microsoft_AD profile to limit impact of SupportOldSchema parameter

323

inside

MVP Diamond

1323

Can't route another network to my site to site VPN tunnel

1728

inside

Explorer

1026

Restrict external access to the Management Server

952

inside

Explorer

810

HTTPS Inspection Best Practices March 2026: Video and Slides

772

inside

MVP Diamond

304

Passo a Pasos da instalação de um Multi Domain Checkpoint R81.20

304

inside

Explorer

532

Unable to bypass Non Compliant HTTP protection over VPN on R82.10

532

Solved

inside

Explorer

864

Need guidance on requesting All-in-One Evaluation license in User Center

864

inside

Collaborator

503

Identical R82.10 GWs with different options for set ssh server mac and set ssh server kex

503

inside

MVP Diamond

2550

Practical Advanced VPN Troubleshooting (Check Point)

2550

Solved

inside

Advisor

549

Gaia WebUI becomes inaccessible when URL Filtering is enabled (SMS without internet access)

803

inside

Participant

351

Migrate single cluster and policy to new domain (CMA)

351

Solved

inside

Contributor

953

Enabling 2FA on Remote Access VPN Gateway for Vendors

953

Solved

inside

Advisor

2739

Logging for GAIA portal and SSH access

2739

inside

Participant

568

Checking for usage of global objects in local policies

568

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

13955

Changing ssh port on CP firewall

13955

inside

MVP Silver

693

Simple eBGP Configuration Between Cisco Router and Check Point Firewall

693

inside

Contributor

651

R82 Smart Console Extensions - install Fails

651

inside

Advisor

1965

Smart-1 Cloud and Enterprise vs SPARK licensing equivalents (need product mgmt insight)

1965

inside

MVP Gold

1628

29000 NIC Slot Population Guidelines

1628

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

609

Automating Object Creation in Check Point SMS Using Available Services

609

Solved

inside

MVP

3911

🚀 This Month’s Spotlight - 3 Features You Should Start Using Today - September 2025

3911

Solved

inside

Contributor

1918

R82 - ElasticXL 3920 Appliance - Member Join Issue

1918

Solved

inside

Participant

1571

Running First Time Wizard in CLI for Secondary SMS

741

inside

Explorer

770

NAT Help: How to NAT to "Remote" internal subnets (not directly connected) on a 2500 Appliance?

770

inside

MVP Diamond

340

Migrating Trunk from SMS on CheckPoint Quantum

340

inside

Contributor

3841

Disaster after Management Server Upgrade from R80.20 to R80.40

3841

inside

Advisor

1053

Grouping multiple Access Roles into a single object

1053

inside

MVP Diamond

791

GW Password Recovery with SmartConsole Script

791

inside

Explorer

595

Update failed. Gateway can not access internet

595

inside

Collaborator

305

Blink upgrade Smart-1 appliance from R81.20 to R82 fails

8179

inside

Participant

1218

ElasticXL (R82) vs ClusterXL Load Sharing — o que muda na prática (arquitetura, tráfego, sync e oper

293

inside

Contributor

1178

R81.20 IPS Log Parsing Bug: Multiple Real Source IPS Displayed as 0.0.127.190

1178

Solved

inside

MVP Gold CHKP

74894

How to manually delete an entry from the Connections Table

74894

inside

Explorer

1118

Extended logging info in log export

1118

Solved

inside

Explorer

873

Default policy installation failed in vsx gatewa

799

Solved

inside

Explorer

1052

Migration Plan from 5100 series HA using Smart-1 410 to 9100 series HA using Smart-1 700 series

1052

inside

MVP Diamond

5632

FULL TIPS for VOIP Passing Through Check Point

5632

inside

Contributor

380

sk105239 article not working when ISP redundancy configured in load sharing mode.

5164

inside

Contributor

3486

Filter by DNS query the DNS requests

3486

inside

MVP Diamond

453

Creation of a Gateway user with SHA-256/SHA-512 hash and verification in SmartConsole

453

inside

Participant

3315

VMSS Azure – Is it possible to customize or replace default Load Balancer?

323

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

1215

Remotely Activating Locator Beacon LED

1215

Solved

inside

Advisor

3256

Sending email from GAIA Gateway to Office365

771

Solved

inside

Advisor

8412

Difference between CPSB-VS-10-VSLS and CPSB-VS-10 blades

8412

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

2891

application control categories

2891

inside

Explorer

865

how to import bulk ip addresses or domains to spark 1900 using smartconsole ?

865

Solved

inside

Advisor

543

snmpd: checkLowVoltageTrap: error parsing current voltage of sensor VCC 5V [artificial trap sent]

543

Solved

inside

Participant

2149

Connections to Checkpoint native services do not encrypt within the VPN for firewall management

2149

inside

Admin

1059

Identity Awareness Best Practices March 2026: Video and Slides

1059

Solved

inside

Collaborator

2881

R82 Mgmt Server Updated to HF-60 Cannot Renew Cluster/Gateway IPSEC Certs

2881

inside

Explorer

1191

Migration from old firewall to new firewall

1191

inside

Collaborator

1706

Enhanced Link Selection Route Based IPSEC VPN

1706

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

567

Smart-1 cloud and gateway behind WebProxy

567

Solved

inside

Participant

1551

The updatable object HTTPS services - optional bypass not found

1551

inside

Participant

718

Access Remote Network over Remote Access VPN

718

Solved

inside

Collaborator

2823

Checkpoint Firewall R82.10 - Simplified Route-Based VPN

1079

inside

Collaborator

918

On-Prem SMS. New firewall in Azure. How to connect?

1670

Solved

inside

Contributor

5142

Slow page loading issues and errors Internal system error in HTTPS Inspection due to categorization

5142

Solved

inside

Contributor

5741

CheckPoint GAIA - Cisco ISE - TACACS+

1243

inside

Explorer

1354

Gateway is natting using interface IP for GTW to MGMT communication

1354

inside

Collaborator

4557

Check Point Update Services down? -- Connection Error, FDT - Unexpected error code

4557

inside

Collaborator

1091

Web Filtering Best Practices March 2026: Video and Slides

747

inside

Participant

1556

Checkpoint Security Gateway R82.10 // Lokal PBX Issues with RTP Traffic

1556

inside

Participant

2941

HTTPS Ispection - Certificate Validation Failure

2941

Solved

inside

Contributor

6200

Ordered Layers vs In-Line Layers

6200

inside

Contributor

1851

Inbound NAT to a server in DMZ with GW public IP

1851

inside

Advisor

815

SmartConsole Change Report Printouts - Any tips?

815

Solved

inside

Contributor

1313

Can we do mix and match between 5000 and 9000

1313

Solved

inside

Explorer

6357

Upgrade Experience: Log Server & Management Server from 81.20 → R82.00

6357

inside

MVP Diamond

682

Check and to enable Memory/CPU Resources in VSX Environment

682

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

547

HTTPS Inspection and Multiple Ingress Interfaces

547

inside

MVP Diamond

2442

Whitespace characters in object names

2442

Solved

inside

Explorer

481

Replacing a disk that was part of a RAID

481

Solved

inside

Contributor

1170

Detect and prevent NTLM traffic

1170

inside

Contributor

3432

Necessary Rules for IPv6 Basic Networking

3432

Solved

inside

Contributor

38055

Exchange Online networks - Is there an Updateable Object for these?

1943

inside

MVP Gold

590

File transfer from Management Server

14135

inside

MVP Silver

575

High CPU usage on VSNext - solved

575

inside

MVP Diamond

2186

CoreXL in a VSX Cluster, tips, activation, and verification

2186

inside

Contributor

1227

VPn Remote Access. Issue with implied rule

1227

Solved

inside

Advisor

1587

R82 SmartConsole (1063) won't start - "Could not load file or assembly..."

1587

inside

Explorer

1039

App & URL Filtering - OSCP Responder Failure

1039

Solved

inside

Advisor

2507

Need to close port 80 and 443 on external interface

2507

Solved

inside

Participant

1645

PPPoE is not supported with SecureXL User Space mode on 3950, R82.10?

1645

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

1165

Check Point Firewall: Certificate-Based Site-to-Site VPN

490

inside

Participant

1013

Move from MDS to Smart-1 Cloud

1013

inside

MVP Diamond

439

VSX provisioning tool as support for VPN services

439

inside

Explorer

3579

Difference between "Well-known Update Services" and "HTTPS services - recommended bypass"

1886

inside

MVP Gold

541

user.def file missed during upgrade

541

inside

Contributor

1797

Managing DAIP Gateway, automatic policy fetch not working

1797

Solved

inside

Collaborator

1068

Is RADsec (RADIUS over TLS) not natively supported in R82?

1068

Solved

inside

Collaborator

2915

Local gateway license generation in usercenter

2915

inside

Contributor

2057

Geo Policy failed to block a country

2057

inside

MVP Gold

448

question regarding transceiver CPAC-TR-10T-D (10G copper)

448

inside

Admin

1026

Getting started with Infinity Identity - Recording

1026

Solved

inside

Participant

2234

Smartview Logs Export Takes Too Long

2234

Solved

inside

Collaborator

8027

How to actually configure Identity Collectors and Identity Sharing

8027

Solved

inside

Contributor

2399

Completely erasing config without doing factory reset

2399

Solved

inside

Contributor

1518

Eval license for Management Server managing 100 Gateways

1518

inside

Explorer

2127

Rulabese matching mechanism column/row

1579

inside

MVP Silver

583

ClusterXL to VSNext - Changing VS core count

583

inside

MVP Silver

478

R82 – Filters Pane Missing in SmartConsole

1208

inside

Advisor

748

Centrally Managed Spark Issues

748

Solved

inside

Contributor

1278

AWS Security Management In-Place Upgrade

1278

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

1609

Gateway IPS, AV, AB, Contract updating directly while proxy configured

3465

Solved

inside

Contributor

1114

Geo Protection-Exception for Remote VPN Users

929

inside

Participant

714

Backup of Gateways not working anymore since R82 Management with CDT and cron

714

Solved

inside

Contributor

6747

R82 + Windows Server 2025 – LDAPS Connection Fails

6747

Solved

inside

Advisor

3653

Replacing 5800 HA ClusterXL with 9200s. Should I convert to ElasticXL?

3653

inside

Advisor

8469

"Check Point" does not recommend using global objects?

8469

inside

Contributor

1695

scp backup fails NMBCK9999, ERROR_HOST_BASE_AUTH errors, but manual scp copy works

1695

inside

Collaborator

1540

firewall policy is not configured

1664

inside

MVP Diamond

704

Argument whether to use any any bypass or any any inspect at the bottom of https inspection policy

704

Solved

inside

Advisor

978

Did R81.20 get an extension till 05/27?

978

inside

Explorer

1406

Technical clarification: ClusterXL HA failover behavior and ICMP source IP

1406

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

979

Unable to install updates via cpuse in the lab with eval license

979

inside

Explorer

906

Migrate Mangement Server R80.40 to R81.20

906

inside

MVP Diamond

1049

bond/interface error messages in vsx_util reconfigure after clean install of vsx(vsls) members

412

inside

Explorer

890

problem upgrade our Secure Management server from R82 take 60 to R82.10_T464_GiaA_Install_Upgrade

890

Solved

inside

Contributor

1131

VSNext Bond configuration and connection with Cisco VPCs

1131

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

1232

Cannot establish connection with the Check Point cloud.

1232

inside

Contributor

3775

Route-based vpn with FortiGate not passing traffic - “no MSPI for MSA”

3775

inside

Collaborator

1250

ElasticXL and VIP not belonging on an interface

900

inside

MVP Diamond

37545

Looking for CIS Benchmark reviewers.

573

inside

Admin

886

Troubleshooting 101 for Check Point Firewalls February 2026: Video and Slides

886

inside

MVP Diamond

2111

ElasticXL Cluster (R82): What Changed vs. ClusterXL (R81.20) — SMO, Auto-Sync, and Operational Scale

2111

inside

MVP Diamond

1774

Avoid a failover during the VSX rebuild process

1774

inside

MVP Diamond

344

No direct log forwarding to third party syslog server for Checkpoint Firewall v81.20

541

inside

Explorer

537

How to check Advance DNS security Logs

537

Solved

inside

Contributor

4869

Smart Console filesystem expansion

4869

inside

Explorer

3346

Unwanted web proxy traffic *chckp.ctmail.com

1529

inside

Contributor

683

Near constant problem with TED interface. Connection issue?

683

Solved

inside

Participant

1022

Quantum Spark 1575 log denied packets

1022

inside

MVP Silver

1777

Command to show all the gateways managed by the management server

1070

Solved

inside

Participant

5182

Basic application control question

1984

inside

MVP Silver

461

Secondary firewall is not accessible through 443 or not accessible through IPSEC tunnel

461

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

5965

Web SmartConsole - Take 163 - New 🚀

3785

Solved

inside

Advisor

806

Logs Exporter - Will the traffic bytes value include in the logs when sending to SIEM?

1462

Solved

inside

Collaborator

769

Checkpoint SMB Traffic shaping/QOS

769

inside

Collaborator

1753

IKEv2 Site-to-Site VPN with Cisco ASA failing at Phase 2 - "No proposal chosen"

1753

Solved

inside

Advisor

2306

Understanding a kernel vpn debug

8299

inside

Participant

2365

Central Deployment of Hotfixes fails on 1555 Cluster

2644

inside

Explorer

3101

Cluster member showing ACTIVE(!) state

3101

Solved

inside

Explorer

3439

HCL update? HPE Gen 11 support

3439

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

659

Managing firewalls behind externaly managed NAT?

659

Solved

inside

Contributor

989

Adding Snort Protections to MDS

989

inside

Contributor

2879

Check Point Firewalls Connection Table

2879

Solved

inside

Contributor

4367

Checkpoint Gateway with Dynamic Public IP from ISP

1222

Solved

inside

Participant

3857

Autonomous Threat Prevention; How to disable Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction for NGTP Gateway

15798

Solved

inside

Collaborator

649

SMS audit search queries in logviewer

649

inside

Explorer

751

IPSec tunnel down time for a specific peer IP

751

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

3148

Check Point Identity Awareness – Secure LDAPS with Enterprise CA

1419

Solved

inside

Contributor

1997

Policy Based routing with reduntant ISP links

1997

Solved

inside

Explorer

528

R81.10.15 to R81.10.17 upgrade on 1595 cluster

528

Solved

inside

Participant

949

MPLS+BGP to internet+VPN failover setup

949

Solved

inside

Contributor

7298

Problem with ssl certificate - Quantum spark 1590

7298

inside

MVP Silver CHKP

3145

January 19, 2038 : next Millennium bug ?

3145

inside

Explorer

2482

Connection terminated before the gateway could make a decision

2482

Solved

inside

Contributor

2668

Failed to receive updates from Check Point Download Center. R82.10 SMS. Trial license

2668

inside

Contributor

5544

Traffic through the VPN trusted interface is sent encrypted instead of clear

5544

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

1253

Background Gateway Upgrade – Now Available for EA!

4750

inside

Collaborator

1276

Separating Endpoint Management from SMS

1276

Solved

inside

Collaborator

2349

Issue with MTA and Threat Emulation Engine Release - Password Protected Archives Not Being Blocked

2349

Solved

inside

Explorer

3267

Best Practice to allow akamaitechnologies IPs/URLs

3267

Solved

inside

Contributor

2864

Upgrading secondary logging server to R82

2864

inside

Participant

2877

Encryption of IKE (ESP) over VPN

2877

Solved

inside

Advisor

4843

Syslog RFC3164 vs RFC5424 – How to Verify Which One Is in Use

4843

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

5628

Maas tunnel down with smart-1 cloud

5628

Solved

inside

Participant

3103

EVE-NG Login Page directly instead of GAIA OS

3103

inside

MVP Gold

7062

R82 using more swap than R81.20

7062

Solved

inside

Participant

2005

Network Config Management backups question

2005

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

4193

PBR with ISP redundancy support

4193

Solved

inside

Contributor

5916

VIP ping delay and active addresses of the MGMT interface

5916

Solved

inside

Contributor

2614

Advertising non existing networks (encryption domain) into BGP - Blackhole Route or NAT-Pools

2614

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1592

Objects.C has mssing objects but in dbedit has object.

1592

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2213

This Month’s Spotlight - Features You Should Start Using Today 🚀

2213

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5635

Access role object on threat prevention policy rule

5635

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inside

MVP Silver

6661

VSX R80.40 - Remote access and RADIUS

6661

inside

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8332

syslog RFC 3164 (old) and RFC 5424 (new).

8332

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1349

VSX - Blink Upgrades & Jumbo HFA Compatibility (sk164258)

1349

Solved

inside

Collaborator

1608

LAB MDS Upgrade Verification Fail "No Partial Domain Verification Issue" - Missing sk113134

1608

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

4540

mgmt interface recommendations

4540

inside

MVP Gold

1075

Fail when trying to create a new loopback interface in VSX

1531

Solved

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44407

How to measure bandwidth on CP Gateway?

44407

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5166

Cannot manage R82.10 (3920 appliance) with R82 Take 43 management

5166

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12821

Setting an DHCP Reservation in CheckPoint DHCP Server on 6400

12821

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MVP Diamond

1649

Dedicated log server upgrade verification issue

1649

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1143

Troubleshooting Logs - A list of Resources - Training, SKs and Commands

1143

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3014

Policy error while adding VSX gateway to SmartConsole

3014

inside

Participant

6102

r81.20 OPEN management server log issues

6102

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6561

Gaia Portal Recognized a non-valid username

6561

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15511

Can Policy based VPNs and Route based VTI coexist on the same checkpoint firewall?

5299

Solved

inside

Collaborator

50007

Options for Migrate Server Export Without Any Firewall Log

977

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inside

MVP Gold

1354

Disable Anti Spoofing on EXTERNAL interface necessary?

825

inside

Explorer

1059

Error about View Changes function

1059

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Contributor

4367

1st timer - upgrade process - R81.10 to R82.10 cluster

4367

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MVP Diamond

9718

ClusterXL issue with MDPS enabled

9718

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MVP Gold

3706

L2TP/IPsec Issue After Gateway Rename

810

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MVP Silver

1312

Check Point R82 Identity Awareness Lab – Identity Collector Step-by-Step

1312

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Contributor

8432

What is the differece between Dmesg and messages

1021

Solved

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Participant

2391

Over-enthusiastic blocking - Leading www in custom ioc domain feed is treated as wildcard?

2129

Solved

inside

Explorer

961

Renew Gaia Portal Web-UI Certificate on Magement Server

961

inside

MVP

3534

This Month’s Spotlight - 3 Features You Should Start Using Today 🚀- December 2025

3534

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MVP Silver

8029

High-Availability Multi-Domain Server Pair - Patching Order?

1273

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Advisor

898

RAS VPN 3950 82.10 Build 291 - Wrong value for: Authentication Method

898

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Explorer

11033

Identity Awareness - R81.20 For Lab

11033

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Contributor

5978

Building NAT via API - Parameter error for position?

1445

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Advisor

5409

create email alert when failover occur

5409

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2228

Query regarding Checkpoint firewall firmware upgradation

2228

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Advisor

2476

Quantum Force 3920 on smart-1 cloud

2476

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Participant

13622

Traffic not working when failover is initiated on Azure cluster

989

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Participant

1510

ERROR: Geolocation DB incorrect for owned IP Space

1510

Solved

inside

Advisor

5672

S2S VPN cannot be connected R82.10 Build 464 - Invalid Key Exchange payload

5672

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Contributor

1688

clusterxl 3970 and vm sms r82 take 60 want to upgrade but ???

1688

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2005

Correct Eval Licensing for HA MDS - CPUSE and migrate_server license violation issues.

2005

inside

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3550

S1C with separate on premises log server???

1387

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Explorer

3480

Challenges with connection based logging

7310

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Participant

6242

Session logs not showing Xlate information

6242

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1493

MDS Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

1382

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3195

R82.10 ISO Install fails on VMWare Vcenter 7

3051

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MVP Gold

3971

Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction testing resources

3971

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4659

Unable to clear status alert in SmartConsole that shows that VPN certificate has expired

4659

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MVP Silver

1270

R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Take 120 (CVE-2019-6109, CVE-2019-6110, CVE-2019-6111)

1079

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2614

CP 3950 - lost Gaia access after installaition of the migrated policy

2614

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Collaborator

1510

IP pool Source NAT issue R82.10 L2TP + IPsec

1684

inside

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587

ClusterXL R8.20 Take 118 - Best way to move interface from 1Gb copper to 10Gb fiber ?

587

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1863

VSX: SCP backup being blocked by non-existing rule 705 ???

1863

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757

Remote Access VPN - AES-GCM as encryption algorithm

757

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641

Checking Site-to-Site VPN tunnel status per gateway from Smart-1 Cloud

641

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2413

CVE-2025-53057 Exploit in Check Point

2413

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801

Please provide comprehensive and step‑by‑step instructions for configuring a Check Point Quantum Spa

801

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1712

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1712

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1793

Smart-1 Cloud: Is it possible to reboot a managed Gateway from SmartConsole?

1713

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1485

SAML Auth failure after upgrade to R82.10

1485

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2865

R81.20 Browser-Based Authentication with RADIUS – “Bad username or password”

2865

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2908

3950 - Host Access doesn't work for SSH

2908

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3925

Unable to work with server or gateway objects

3925

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2204

Dedicated Sync Interfaces as an internal or external interface

2204

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4717

The best way to remove unused domain objects?

4717

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4018

NAT Rules not matching with new R82 gateway in place.

4018

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2423

R82 MDS migrate_server export syntax error using --ignore_warnings

1091

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2224

Install database vs install policy

1199

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2213

Installing Event Policy EXTREMELY slow on SmartEvent Smart-1 600-S appliance

3884

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969

high memory load on VSX Maestro

3049

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2046

Site-to-Site BGP VPN to Azure on Check Point VSX (R81.20) – step-by-step guidance needed

2811

inside

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938

mgmt ports and main Cluster VIP

938

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5134

Did anyone else suffer from recent CPDIAG script update causing their Gateway to lock? - SK184446

2208

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1042

Questions about ElasticXL in production real customer experience

1042

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1428

FW-rule matches although destination is not part of mentioned FW-group

1428

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1064

Cloudguard management upgrade question

1064

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8808

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8808

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3462

Domain Controllers not detected by Identity Collector

1267

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1990

SIC re-establishment for VSX cluster after SMS migration from R81.20 to R82

1990

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2965

About site-to-site VPN outgoing route selection

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1538

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2127

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2127

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5998

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5998

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2363

Can the Check Point forward http/s traffic to a "peer proxy"?

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1652

HTTPS Inspection Best Practices December 2025: Video and Slides

1652

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757

Create a new autonomous Internal IPS profile for internal network

757

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1593

Inline Layer with Access Roles

1593

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2283

Smart‑1 7000UL – First Look at Onboarding & Deployment

886

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1772

URL Filtering with in-line proxy

1772

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3799

Create whitelist for single IP when using Geo-blocking objects

3799

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5312

Smart‑1 7000 Ultra – Unboxing Check Point’s Flagship Management Server

2071

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2201

Connectivity down between a 9100 gateway and a cisco 4500 module

2201

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2620

IKE certificate auto-renewal failure

8735

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2753

Upgrade standalone FW from R81 to R82 failed

2753

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1307

Best practices and recommendations for implementing the manager's operating system.

1307

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662

Routing check/tip when moving config from one fw to another

662

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2291

Installing Threat Prevention Policy failes after Upgrade to R82

2291

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2269

Web Filtering Best Practices December 2025: Video and Slides

2269

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1042

After R82 Multi Domain Management Upgrade: VALIDATION Error on SMB interfaces without ip address

1042

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2226

After upgrade R82 - RTP (VOIP) not working, with secureXL enabled

2226

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1512

ISP redundancy/ PBR /sd-wan question

1512

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1254

Getting hitcount information out the NAT Policy per json

1254

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3876

Quantum Force 3980 Branch Office Security On-Boarding

599

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3140

Admin session is hanged and locked out in the MDS

3140

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1163

Migrate MDS server from R81.20 to R82 one domain at a time

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8656

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704

Quantum Force 3920 – Seamless Onboarding for Secure Branch Deployments

704

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826

MDS - cleanup free disk space settings

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8517

Checkpoint Firewall for ISP provider

8517

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2407

Slow & Sluggish Performance with Smart-1 Cloud

2407

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3681

Does ElasticXL really require 4 interfaces?

3681

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2934

Management Server on Nutanix AOS 7 / AHV 10

2934

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Employee

854

Quantum Force 3980 – High-Performance Security for Demanding Branch and Mid-Size Environments

854

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2107

VPN management in CLI and Smartview in latest versions

2107

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1390

Quantum Force – The Next Generation of Branch Office Security

1390

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2682

Check Point Quantum Force 3980 Unboxing

2682

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3154

What happens when Support Contract Expires?

3154

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2661

Memory usage on 9000 series appliances

2661

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2838

Manage Locally-Managed Spark firewall via VPN

1186

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2025

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2025

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4422

Problem with creating LDAP Account Unit

4422

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1888

Setting up ClusterXL in different DCs

2454

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9829

R82: Site to site VPN authentication issue when using certificates

9829

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1017

Intermittency in P2 of an S2S VPN

1017

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31600

Smart-1 cloud management portal log check issue

3344

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2831

Redundant/Backup IPSEC VPN Options R81.20

2831

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2325

Standalone backups and appliance refresh

2325

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Advisor

10761

how to upgrade R81.20 to R82 VM management server

3270

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MVP Silver

2661

Check Point Quantum Force 3920 Unboxing

2722

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2992

Can an SMS running R81.20 Take 53 manage a Security Gateway cluster running R81.20 JHF 118?

2992

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2432

Portal Customization Captive Portal

2432

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1449

Quantum Spark 2500 series - HA Pair. Manager required?

1449

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693

Which Object Needed for Office 365 Deployment?

693

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1981

Whitelisted AWS domains still blocked

1981

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11040

IPSEC site to site VPN fails after R80.20 upgrade

11040

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4232

Lightspeed Appliance QLS and VSX

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2890

Lightspeed acceleration disabled

2890

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54370

Updatable Object for Checkpoint services

54370

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1425

Security Gateways and NTP - Implied rule?

1425

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781

Critical: data loss risk – daily log ingestion might be capped! Update

781

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6650

Forwarding specific traffic from a particular cluster member(unicast LS)

795

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2084

Will R82.10 ship with a ClusterXL to ElasticXL Conversion Tool?

972

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3269

High disk consumption of /dev/mapper/vg_splat lv-log

3269

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3623

UDP packet loss after installing policy R81.20

3623

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1925

SmartConsole showing incorrect "recommended jumbo" for one device

1925

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2840

Issue with Copilot Desktop Client – File Upload Error

3506

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