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Introduction to SecureKnowledge Weekly

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Yuri_Slobodyany
Collaborator

Always wondered but never verified regrading "Product Version" filtering of the search results - how exact are they ? I just always am hesitant to use it so not to miss some results that could be mistakenly categorized with the wrong version. . 

Maarten_Sjouw
Champion
Champion

I really like the collection of the Emmbedded SK's created by Gunther, would it be an idea to create a number of the same type for specific subjects, like VPN, NAT, IPS, APCL/URLF (just to name a few) type SK's?

I know that from the list of Embedded SK's I could just search through the list in the browser for a specific keyword which did not show when searching the normal knowledge base.

Petr_Hantak
Advisor
Advisor

First of all many thanks for Secure Knowledge‌ section. 

I don't know how much do you use "My Favorites" on Secure Knowledge database, but after some time it started to be useless for me. When you have many different favorites there, then you are not able to sort or group them. So I just keep my own little database with comments in One Note or bookmarks for example and "My Favorites" just works as highlight for me during normal search. I just see it was interested for me before, so usually I open it as first result during my SK search. Do you agree that at least some basic customization would be great there?

Ivo_Marques
Contributor

My suggestion goes to “Cookbook for usual deployment of Check Point products”.

If I want to deploy a Remote Access scenario I should read the Remote Access Administration Guide maybe the Mobile Access Administration guide, the Security Management, etc.

I think it will be great to create the cookbook for common deployments and if you want to go further use the administration guides.

_Val_
Admin
Admin

Hi Yuri,

This is how it works. While looking up the solutions, you can chose three filters:

Filters

  • Products, as in Software Blades: VPN, AVI, Anti-Bot, Management, etc. The list is away there.
  • Type of the solution. It can be All, Howto, ATRG, and so on
  • Version. your question is about this one

Each solution comes with these three fields predefined. If you open any of them, you will see relevant product and version on the top, before anything else, as following:

SK team is updating the articles all the time, so chances of missing a solution you need when filtering by Version are slim to nil. 

Please let me know if this helps,

Val

_Val_
Admin
Admin

Indeed, the Gunther's list is awesome. I have been looking into it, and it is a lot of work behind it. 

I have mentioned, however, that the list is not just the cases relates to Embedded Gaia specifically. It looks like a collection of useful cases the author listed while working on his own tasks. There are quite a few that are applicable on a wider range of deployment platforms.

I have similar lists, mostly related to things I have encountered, such as troubleshooting, performance optimization, best practices, ATRGs, VSX, etc.

In the thread just above this I have shown that you can actually filter SKs not only by keywords but also by version, product and type. Since this is something coming up often, I will dedicate a separate post on the topic of finding and filtering the solutions in Secure Knowledge. 

Concerning the lists, there are some already. For example, there is an SK for all HowTo articles with the links to each one. I personally miss a list of all ATRGs, and I will definitely talk to Secure Knowledge team about adding more.

Yuri_Slobodyany
Collaborator

Thx, I'll give it a try, will update

Ronen_Zel
Mod
Mod

ATRGs and Best Practices articles also have a dedicated page in Support Center:

https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doShowtechnicalreferenceguides 

_Val_
Admin
Admin

Anything does not sit right with you, ping me here

_Val_
Admin
Admin

Wow, thanks Ronen, I cannot explain how I missed this. Simple things 🙂

_Val_
Admin
Admin

Thanks a lot for your feedback, Petr. Yes, there is certainly a room to improve user experience with SecureKnowledge. I will make sure relevant people at Check Point receive your suggestion. Smart management of Favorites list is one, and I believe there will be others as well.

_Val_
Admin
Admin

Thanks Ivo, this is an interesting suggestion. We do encourage our customers to read User Guides on any occasion, with or without a specific tasks to do in mind.

One of the funnies challenges with Check Point products is that Management UI is very intuitive, and it is just too easy to skip admin guides when starting with the products.

Your suggestion, if came to life, would also decrease customers' willingness to refer to admin guides. We are actually trying to achieve an opposite goal here: more customers, engineers and technical experts to work with our official documentation.

Martin_Raska
Advisor
Advisor

Hi Valeri,

could you please share - Gunther's list?

Martin_Raska
Advisor
Advisor

Very good point Peter, I am using My favorites a lot and if I count them its 347 of saved sk. Any improvement for management those will be appreciated.

_Val_
Admin
Admin

But of course. Here we go: https://community.checkpoint.com/docs/DOC-2648-smb-devices-references-and-sk-s 

You can always use the CheckMates search tool, when looking for posts, it works quite well here 🙂

PhoneBoy
Admin
Admin

On the other hand, if the official documentation is lacking, then we should probably address that.

Even so, the community can also be a good resource as even cookbooks can't account for every scenario. Smiley Happy

_Val_
Admin
Admin

We need to discuss this offline. 

Sergei_Shir
Employee
Employee

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