Check Point Security Management Server is not running

[johnnyringo]

I'm deploying a fresh R81.10 CheckPoint Management Server in GCP via terraform.  The deployment looks good from what I can tell, but I'm unable to connect via SmartConsole.  A tcpdump does indicate the traffic is reaching the management server on port 19009 but there is no acknowledgement.  

I checked CPM  status and it isn't even running, even after completing initial configuration and rebooting:

[Expert@whatever:0]# $FWDIR/scripts/cpm_status.sh
Check Point Security Management Server is not running

The server does not have an $FWDIR/log/cpm.elg as one would expect.  It really looks like it's been deployed as a gateway, but I did explicitly set this:

installationType               = "Management only"

as an argument to startup-script.sh

[the_rock]

Do you see fwm running at all? If you do fw stat command, should say its management only.

[genisis__]

what does cpwd_admin -list tell you?

[johnnyringo · Accepted solution]

I found the problem.  The gateways and management server use different images; I had missed that during the code merge.

• R81.10 image for Cluster PAYG = "checkpoint-public/check-point-r8110-gw-payg-cluster-335-985-v20220126"
• R81.10 image for Management Server = "checkpoint-public/check-point-r8110-payg-335-883-v20210706"

The cluster image supports only the firewall blade initially, so even if the startup-script.sh has been given an arguement to configure a management server, it won't work.  

[_Val_]

thanks for sharing the solution