The Affects after Renew the VPN certificate in SmartConsole?

[Mk_83]

Hello everyone, 

Currently we have VPN certificate warning:

Follow the sk178304 recommendations: https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk178304, we saw that we need to renew VPN certificate.

I am concerned that when renewing VPN certificate it will cause loss of Site-to-Site VPN connection, Remote Access VPN (user

local authen using cert) is currently active.

Is there anything I need to pay attention to when renew VPN Certificate to reduce incident? Because this is a product environment (critical).

Please help me the answer..


Thank you so much,

Best Regards.

[_Val_ · Accepted solution]

GW VPN certificate renewal should not affect VPN services, both site-to-site and Remote Access. Just make sure you reinstall policy to all FWs in the community. 

[Mk_83]

Thanks _Val_ for your early response,
I will proceed to renew VPN Cert tomorrow.

Best Regard.

[the_rock]

I can guarantee you nothing will happen. I had done this probably 100+ times, never had an issue with either RA or S2S. You can do it pretty much any time. As @_Val_ said, just install the policy afterwards.

Andy

[Mk_83]

Hi the_rock,
Thanks for your confirmation. 

Best Regards.

[the_rock]

No problem.