How to get permanently rid of 'Introducing Expert audit logs and notification' messages

[S_E_]

Hi

Logon via SmartConsole to a MDSM R81.x.   SmartConsole is on a Windows Terminal Server.

Every login to any domain the message 'Introducing Expert audit logs and notification' appears. Whatever you select (Remind; GetStarted; No) will be ignored and the next login, it appears again. On every domain....

Same for 'new SmartConsole Client messages'

Any idea to get rid of that?

Regards

b.t.w. Firewall admin ≠ WTS server admin

[PhoneBoy · Accepted solution]

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/Disable-expert-mode-audit-log-notification-nagwar... 

[S_E_]

hi

Hm, sorry, this solution only works

- if you have admin privileges on on the servers where SmartConsole runs

- not really realistic when you have more than 80 admins

This is not really an enterprise approach.

Unfortunately Webconsole is not an alternative ( No MDS, NO HA support)

However, Thanks a lot

[PhoneBoy]

I don't think editing your user.config file requires admin rights (but could be wrong about that).

[Duane_Toler]

I wrote this PowerShell script to take care of it, too:

Enjoy!

EDIT: Correction to fix nanosecond time.

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $env:USERPROFILE\AppData\ -Name "user.config" -Force | ForEach-Object {
  $Path = "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\"+$_
  $xml = New-Object -TypeName XML
  $xml.Load($Path)

  $item = $xml.configuration.userSettings.'CP.Infrastructure.Properties.Settings'.setting.value.dictionary.items.item |
    Where-Object {  $_.key -eq "expertModePopupRemindDate" }

  If ($item) { $item.InnerText = 2014662651247 }
  $xml.Save($Path)
}

[Tobias_Moritz]

Thanks for the PS1-Script, but your msec since epoch value is missing one digit. It looks like you wanted to copy 2014662651247 from the example from Paul Hagyard from the other thread but missed the last digit. So instead of year 2033 you made it 1976.

[Duane_Toler]

Argh, you're correct! Thanks for the review!  I'll edit the post above for the correction.