Wow. https://welcome.checkpoint.com .
In our organization, we never have direct access via the console, only via console switches somewhere in a data center, so I didn't even know that this was possible.
I would doubt that the device needs Internet access to use the FTW in this way.
In my youthful naivety, I'll just take the liberty of describing my impressions:
To me, it looks as if the web app simply establishes a connection to the appliance in order to check, for example, whether it is really the device selected in the pop-up (in this case, the 9000 series).
It queries the usual parameters and then “feeds” the cli version of the FTW (config_system) via the USB interface.
If I were to develop such an app, I would collect all parameters, including the expert password, and then create a config.txt file via the USB-cli connection, run config_system -t config.txt, and then present the cli output in a nice, colorful graphic format.
In short: Maybe this is just a case of a device that got stuck when starting the setup process?
On the other hand, my theory above could also be completely wrong. In that case, I take it all back.
and now to something completely different - CCVS, CCAS, CCTE, CCCS, CCSM elite