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@the_rock , @Vincent_Bacher : Don't forget that he doesn't have a cluster anymore and cpstop would also stop his only active cluster node causing a full production outage and maybe even kill his connection to the system.

In a standalone Check Point cluster node (where both the Security Gateway and the Security Management Server run on the same machine), if @nilanjan_lahiri  wants to stop only the management services without affecting the firewall/gateway traffic, he should only stop the management processes.

@nilanjan_lahiri : Use SmartConsole to make your management active or run cpwd_admin to stop the management processes, make it active via cpprod_util and then start your management services again:

cpwd_admin stop -name FWM -path "$FWDIR/bin/fw" -command "fw kill fwm"
cpwd_admin:
Process FWM (pid=27613) stopped with command "fw kill fwm". Exit code 0.
cpprod_util FwSetActiveManagement 1
cpprod_util FwIsPrimary
1
cpwd_admin start -name FWM -path "$FWDIR/bin/fwm" -command "fwm"
cpwd_admin:
Process FWM started successfully (pid=28833)