R80.30 Migrate Standalone to Distributed

[Lockout888]

Hello,

I would like to migrate an R80.30 standalone deployment to a distributed one.

I found sk154033 but it says "Important note: This will not work for R80.20 and R80.30 environments as the ISO and kernel versions are different between the Standalone server (gateway ISO) and new distributed secondary Management server (Management ISO with New Kernel), which will fail the synchronization."

Any other SKs or instructions on this?

Thanks!

[PhoneBoy]

You basically have two options:
1. Upgrade to R80.40 and perform the steps in sk154033.
2. Use a script like this to copy some of the configuration over to a new management server: https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/Python-tool-for-exporting-importi...