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Promoting secondary server to primary issues

Hello Everyone,

Im trying to promote my secondary management server running R80.20 to primary as i want to sync another newly installed management server, im trying to follow this sk here 114933 but for the first solution when i execute 

$FWDIR/bin/promote_util
-bash:  /opt/CPsuite-R80.20/fw1/bin/promote_util: No such file or directory

 

It shows no such file or directory, now do i create that myself or whats me next step because the second solution as stated below is very difficult to follow -

 

This one utility does the same as following manual procedure outlined below: 

 

On the Secondary Security Management Server perform following procedure:

 

  1. Stop all running Check Point services by running the cpstop command. 
  2. Backup the $FWDIR/conf/objects_5_0.C file. 
  3. Edit the objects_5_0.C file as follows:

 

  1. Edit the former Primary Server Object definitions by searching for Primary Server Object name:

    Example of the beginning of an object that is called PRIMARY-CP-MGMT    : (PRIMARY-CP-MGMT  

    under section :AdminInfo change

    From
    :Deleteable (false)
    To
    :Deleteable (true)

    in the same object search for :primary_management and change

    From
    :primary_management (true)
    To 
    :primary_management (false) 

 

  1. Edit the old Secondary Object definitions by searching for the secondary management server object name:

     under section :AdminInfo change

From

:Deleteable (true)

To

:Deleteable (false) 

  From

:primary_management (false)

To

:primary_management (true)

 

There are more steps which i havent copied here but it seems too difficult to follow as i am able to get to the objects_5_0.C file and search for : (PRIMARY-CP-MGMT  nothing shows up, i search for "PRIMARY" keyword as well and nothing shows up, and there seems to be hundreds of sections that have ":AdminInfo" keyword in them so no idea which exact part i have to edit so please need help here, just want to be able to sync the newly setup management server successfully.

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PhoneBoy
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You're trying to follow the steps for versions prior to R80 on R80.20.
As noted in the SK, refer to the following documentation for the correct procedure: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R80.30/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R80.30_SecurityManagement_AdminGuid...

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PhoneBoy
Admin
Admin
You're trying to follow the steps for versions prior to R80 on R80.20.
As noted in the SK, refer to the following documentation for the correct procedure: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R80.30/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R80.30_SecurityManagement_AdminGuid...
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kb1
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Looks like the command is working now thanks.

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JozkoMrkvicka
Mentor
Mentor

try to find correct path of "promote_util" file by running following command:

find / -name "promote_util"

Kind regards,
Jozko Mrkvicka
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kb1
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hi thanks its working now.
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