What is the default time that HIT count data is kept in R80?

[EVSolovyev]

Hi all.

Who knows, how much time hit count data is kept by default?

I think - 3 month. In lab by default I see 3 month. And I can find it in documentation:

http://dl3.checkpoint.com/paid/04/04a17719fee24dfbd327e67de8b79de7/CP_R80.10_SecurityManagement_Admi... 

But there told about 6 month by default:

http://dl3.checkpoint.com/paid/9d/9d29af5a51f26454dfcec40ad950af6a/CP_R80_SecurityManagement_AdminGu... 

What is true and what is not true? And what we must tell on CCSA\CCSE exam?

[Daniel_Taney]

I thought it was 6 months... I'm pretty sure the test material says 6 months. But, I read this debate in a couple of places and would like to see some final confirmation of which is which... or if it changed in between versions.

[EVSolovyev]

In R80.10 (I try it in lab) hit count predefined time is 3 month. And I ever thought, that it's 3 month... But documentation confuses me.

[PhoneBoy]

You're referencing R80 and R80.10 documentation.

Which specific version are you concerned about?

And if the documentation is wrong, please use the link in the documentation to report it

[Maarten_Sjouw]

One of the problems with this, it is a question in the R80 CCSA or CCSE exam.

As we can see above there are several possible answers according the documentation.

[PhoneBoy]

Hmm Jason Tugwell‌

[Vladimir]

Speaking of Hit Counters, when are we going to get the ability of resetting them on per-rule bases while maintaining the rule UID?

I believe that right now, the only way to reset per-rule counter is to duplicate the rule and delete the original.

[Timothy_Hall]

Short Answer: Because the exam is for version R80, the correct answer is 3 months.

Long Answer: When Hit Counts were introduced in R75.40, default value was 6 months. However this default got changed to 3 months somewhere in R77.XX (I know for sure the default in R77.30 is 3 months), so any reasonably new installations will be set to 3 months. However any SMS installations that existed in R75.4X and were upgraded/imported into a later version will still be set to that original default of 6 months, unless someone manually changed it.

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[EVSolovyev]

Hi, Timothy. Thank you for your answer.

So there is a mistake in this document, because it for R80 and I can see the default hit count data caption time - 6 month?

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[Timothy_Hall]

Yep that is incorrect and was probably brought forward from older versions of the documentation without being updated.

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