Hello Checkmates (and CP product mgmt) -
The newly released 2500-series ARM-based embedded GAIA devices are great.
However, it's a "significant" sales problem trying to get these in customer hands with current limitation and lack of support for central SmartCenter (or Smart1-cloud) management.
Central management in Enterprise is the core bread and butter of Checkpoint and historically a differentiator vs competition.
Now we have various new 2500-series devices that can only be managed by SMP (Sofaware Mgmt Portal -- for those who remember Sofaware -- aka SPARK Mgmt Portal).
The current statement on datasheet states "Smart-1 Cloud & Managementserver are currently not supported".
There is implied notion that central SmartCenter mgmt support could be coming in future release.
Can anyone provide any details and time- line?
We are in middle of quoting solutions to customers who already use SmartCenter. We were hoping to avoid the 1500-series to insure solution longevity for customer.
Note: local CP field engineering is the one to made me aware of this baffling limitation. He had no further information and treating the limitation as black/white.
Thanks -GA