How valid are database domains today?

[kamilazat]

Hi all!

I've been reading https://dkcheckpoint.blogspot.com/ and noticed that he's talking about database domains:

Database Domains
Management database configuration stored in postgres database is partition into several rational database domains -

1. Global Domain
   - exist in the Security Management Deployment
   - It is
2. User Domain
   - Stores user modify configuration such as network objects and security policies
   - Multi Domain environment, each domain contains a separate user domain type
3. System Domain
  - contains administrator data,
  - Folders
  - Domain
  - Trusted GUI Client permission profile
  - Management settings
4. Log Domain 
  - contains config data of log servers and save queries for application

When I tried to look these up on documentation and SKs, I didn't find anything explanatory, and thought that maybe this is is not as relevant today compared to earlier versions. Maybe they changed the architecture and removed the explanations because they're not relevant anymore.

But wanted to ask anyway, how relevant is this explanation of database domains today in R81.20 and R82? Is there a document that I can read more in detail about it?

Cheers!

[_Val_]

Firstly, it would make much more sense to ask the author of the blog, Shyam. 

Secondly, in this particular instance, he is trying to describe a specific Check Point term, Security Management Domain, widely used in Multi-Domain Management systems, in his own words, (in my personal view) very loosely and not exactly accurately. 

It is much better described in the documentation guides, for example here. In that narrative, a security management domain is a valid and quite important term.

Let me know if this helps.

[Tal_Paz-Fridman]

Adding to what _Val_ wrote you can also check out the relevant section in Check Point for Beginners

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Check-Point-for-Beginners/Check-Point-Jump-Start-Multi-Domain-Ma...