How to replace a custer of two 5900 with a cluster of two Spark 1900

[jo-ke]

I am looking for a way to replace an existing cluster of two 5900s with a cluster of two Spark 1900s. The existing cluster and management server are running on R81.20. Does anyone have any advice on the best way to proceed?

[PhoneBoy]

If the 1900s will be managed by the same management, you can reuse the existing policy.
Simply create the necessary gateway/cluster objects (SMB gateways have different gateway object types) and push policy.
The actual swapping of the equipment will require an outage.

[Lesley]

This plus 5900 uses GAIA and Spark uses GAIA embedded. The CLI commands are different. 

For example if you want to add SYSLOG to GAIA it is like this:

add syslog log-remote-address <IPv4 Address> level <Severity>

And for GAIA embedded it loosk like:

add syslog-server ipv4-address <ipv4-address> [ port <port> ] [ enabled <enabled> ] name <name> [ sent-logs <sent-logs> ]

[G_W_Albrecht]

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/SMB_R81.10.X/AdminGuides_Centrally_Managed/EN/Content/Topics/Co...

[the_rock]

I was going to suggest below, but it would not work, since its smb cluster in question:

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Security-Gateways/Replace-Upgrade-Cluster/m-p/157228#M27268

Sounds like what @PhoneBoy suggested is your best bet.

Andy