This Week in CheckMates 24 December 2018

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While most of the content on CheckMates is in English, we now have a few groups where both content and discussions are available in other languages! 

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Christmas with the CheckMates Team

Happy Holidays from the CheckMates team!

Niran Turgeman‌ got us into the spirit by "elfing" us.

Community Highlights

Here are the conversations worth watching in the community:

R80.20.M2 Now Available 

Just in time for Christmas!

R80.20 security checkup report does not export 

There's a fix for this issue.

Domain-Based VPN with Dynamic Routing 

Can you disable the VPN routes? Yes you can.

Mapping Rule numbers from R80.20 to fwaccel stat output 

You can look at the compiled rulebase, but it might be in the backward compatibility directories.

How to see what firewall rules match some traffic 

This is when you're not sure what rule will match traffic.

SecureXL Connections Table 

Did you know SecureXL maintains its own connections table? Now you do.

Does R80.10 Identity Collector work with Cisco ISE 2.4 

Wasn't QAed, but it should work.

Reports on 730 Appliances  

Reports related to applications only work if the Application Control blade is enabled.

Update 15400 r77.30 to r80.20 

Have you done this? What's your experience?

Site-to-site vpn Tunnel to a non Checkpoint Gateway 

Debugging tips

BEYOND - Customer Success Hub 

We're still working through some issues with the new support hub.

Upcoming Events

• 9th January 2019: New Years Toast and Migrate to R80.20 
• 15th January 2019: Introduction to Check Point R80.x API in Memphis‌
• 5th March 2019: Check Point R80.20 Updates, Troubleshooting and Support Best Practices, Live in Bratislava!

And, of course, CPX 360 2019!