Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
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Community Highlights
Here are some highlights from the week's activity on CheckMates:
This is something you can see in the Firewall logs often. There are a few different causes of it, as explained in this thread.
While we used to allow this back in the Nokia IPSO days with VRRP, this was never a good idea and is not allowed with ClusterXL today. Clusters must contain members with the exact same hardware.
Yes, you can do this, but it requires a couple extra steps.
Great work by Tim Koopman on continuing to iterate this PowerShell module for interacting with the Check Point R80 APIs!
There is a significant difference working with IPS Profiles in R77.30 and earlier versus how it's done with R80+. This thread details how it works and why.
Did You Know...
Each week (by default) you should get two emails from CheckMates:
- Weekly summary of community activity
- Activity from those topics or users you are following.
If you are not following anyone or any particular topic, these emails look exactly the same.
You are, of course, welcome to click on the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of these emails, which will disable all emails from CheckMates.
What you might want to do instead is change the reasons and frequency of the emails by going to your preferences: https://community.checkpoint.com/user-preferences!input.jspa
From here you can set which emails you get when:
See also this short video on the subject: Set Email Notification Prefs in CheckMates
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