R81.10 upgrade

[carl_t]

Hi All

We are looking to upgrade our Checkpoint management server and gateways from R81.10.

I see R82 has been out since Oct, however when I look on the Checkpoint website, it says the recommended release is R81.20

Which one should we migrate to guys?

[PhoneBoy]

My understanding is that we will be declaring R82 Recommended in the very near future.

[the_rock]

Here is the best advice I can give personally...I would say based on the lab testing I had done and considering few customers who use S1C management, I would 100% upgrade management ONLY for now to R82 and leave gateways to R81.20. That seems to work very well, had not seen any issues at all.

My lab:

mgmt -> R82 jumbo 12

cluster -> R81.20 jumbo 99

single gw -> R81.20 jumbo 99

dedicated smart event -> R81.20 jumbo 99

Best,

Andy

[kamilazat]

What do you think about sk183252?

"R82 Management Server does not support backward compatibility for Capsule Workspace."

[the_rock]

Interesting, never seen that sk before.

Anfy

[kamilazat]

Me neither. It was in my weekly highlights email yesterday 🙂

[the_rock]

I may try test this in the lab.

Andy

[PhoneBoy]

Capsule Workspace is End of Life and the issue can be fixed by upgrading the relevant gateway to R82.

[the_rock]

Good to know!

[the_rock]

Hey Carl,

Were you able to get this done mate?

Best,

Andy

[carl_t]

Hi Andy

We are starting it this week, I think we are going to go with R81.20 for now, so we have the same everywhere.

[G_W_Albrecht]

I would also suggest that !