Vmware ESXI lab

[ibucur]

Hi everybody

Please allow me to ask for a suggestion regarding the following issue:

I try to make a R80.40 Checkpoint lab, on a VMWare vSphere 5 Hypervisor, with plenty of hardware resources.

I try to follow as much as possible the guides:

1. I had created a VM with Windows 7 as management console PC.

2.I had created a VM and installed R80.40 as a Management Server.

3. I created 2 new VM's FW1 and FW2 and installed R80.40 as Gateways, and configured SIC communication with server.

4. From Smartconsole can acces the Management server and tried to add those 2 GW's. When I put the name FW1 and FW2, the server returned an error that those 2 names already exist, so I put FW12 and FW22. In Smrtconsole all 3 Objects look connected and fine.

5. I put the license in Management server, Publish and try to apply policy to GW's. Install policy failed all the time. Server Management get the license. The GW's don't.

6. I try to ping GW's from PC, no response. Ping from GW's to PC is ok.

So my problem can be reduced to the following: ping from pc to GW, and install policy fail.

Any help is appreciated.

Best regards

[G_W_Albrecht · Accepted solution]

Try ssh to GWs and issue fw unloadlocal on each one, then try policy install again !

[ibucur]

thanks, it works

[G_W_Albrecht · Accepted solution]

Background: With no policy defined, GWs will have a default policy of any any drop ! If you install policy after establishing SIC this should not happen.