This Week in CheckMates: 29 December 2017

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Community Highlights

While it is the end of the year and the holiday season in much of the world, the community was still pretty active! Here's a few highlights:

R80.10 Management API "put-file" command's undocumented flag 

The undocumented flag will allow you to use the put-file command to upload a file to the management server or gateway.

Healthcheck Script 

This thread highlights a healthcheck script we recently made available in sk121447. Have you checked it out, yet?

Finding main IP of any managed gateway 

There seems to be some debate about how to accomplish this. What's your take?

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/6452-smartconsole-result-parsing 

Do you realize there's a CLI available in SmartConsole? It works a little different than using mgmt_cli and this thread details some of those differences.

Upcoming Events

We are scheduling CheckMates Live events for 2018...we'll share here once we have some confirmed dates and locations.

Meanwhile, our upcoming TechTalks include:

• New Years Toast and Migration to R80.10  on January 3rd
• Security Visibility Best Practices with SmartEvent on January 17th
• Mobile Security Best Practices on February 14th

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