Management High Availability

[velo]

What is Checkpoints stance on having redundant management servers? I assume it's recommended to have two servers running in HA in a production environment? Is that recommendation documented anywhere? 

Secondly, do Checkpoint have a cloud offering for managing gateways? Looking for a solution that will support SMB 1500s and Quantum 6200.

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/Infinity_Portal/WebAdminGuides/EN/Check-Point-SmartCloud-Admin-...

[Chris_Atkinson]

Two or more Mgmt servers are supported for high availability.

Depending on your requirements this can be a mix of machine types. 

Smart-1 Cloud is our "Management as a Service" offering but Management can also be a VM(s) hosted on Azure/AWS etc

[Tal_Paz-Fridman]

You can read more about Management High Availability here:

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R81.20/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R81.20_SecurityManagement_AdminGuid...

[the_rock]

From my experience, only large companies use that...ie banks, MSPs, engineering firms, with lots of locations worldwide. 

Though example I gave is more for MDS, mgmt HA is never a bad idea if you manage lots of gateways.

Andy

[velo]

Thanks