High Availability (HA) on Checkpoint 1590 Quantum Spark

[Phillip-83]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Checkpoint and I've been trying to learn how to set up for my customer.
Currently, I'm stuck in this place (Connection diagram as shown in the attached picture). I have configured HA for LAN on Lan3, synchronizing the firewall via Lan2. I don't HA the 2 WAN inputs of the 2 Checkpoints, but let them connect directly to the IPS via Metro (my customer using Metro Wan-MPLS Layer 2). Now if I drop the channel on FW1's WAN, will FW2 automatically switch from Standby to Active?

Can someone help me with the answer to this, please.

[PhoneBoy]

To the best of my knowledge, only interfaces that are involved in clustering can cause a failover.
Doesn't sound like the WAN is involved in clustering, which means I would expect this to not work.
However, you might want to open a TAC case and confirm: https://help.checkpoint.com 

[Phillip-83]

So if I have 2 transmission channels, with this checkpoint 1590 (There is no Router and SW WAN above the FW), is there any plan to HA those 2 transmission channels? These two transmission channels use 2 different IP layers from 2 different network providers.

[G_W_Albrecht]

Find all details for how to configure a SMB HA Cluster here: sk121096: How to configure a cluster between locally managed SMB appliances

[PhoneBoy]

ClusterXL (on non-SMB appliances) definitely has a requirement for the WAN interfaces being on a "shared" network.
That said, clustering is a little different on the SMB appliances, which is one of the reasons I suggested checking with TAC.
I will also check internally as well.

[PhoneBoy · Accepted solution]

Actually, there's an SK that covers this exact scenario and the steps needed to achieve it: https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk181841 

[Chris_Atkinson]

Is this locally or centrally managed, running R81.10.10 firmware?