You're reading from Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+ A practical guide to Check Point firewall deployment and administration

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Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072717

Length 654 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Network Security

Author (1):

Vladimir Yakovlev

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Check Point, Network Topology, and Firewalls in Your Infrastructure and Lab

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention Products FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Common Deployment Scenarios and Network Segmentation

4. Chapter 3: Building a Check Point Lab Environment – Part 1

5. Chapter 4: Building a Check Point Lab Environment – Part 2

6. Part 2: Introduction to Gaia, Check Point Management Interfaces, Objects, and NAT

7. Chapter 5: Gaia OS, the First Time Configuration Wizard, and an Introduction to the Gaia Portal (WebUI)

8. Chapter 6: Check Point Gaia Command-Line Interface; Backup and Recovery Methods; CPUSE

9. Chapter 7: SmartConsole – Familiarization and Navigation

10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Policies, Layers, and Rules

11. Chapter 9: Working with Objects – ICA, SIC, Managed, Static, and Variable Objects

12. Chapter 10: Working with Network Address Translation

13. Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

14. Chapter 11: Building Your First Policy

15. Chapter 12: Configuring Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPNs

16. Chapter 13: Introduction to Logging and SmartEvent

17. Chapter 14: Working with ClusterXL High Availability

18. Chapter 15: Performing Basic Troubleshooting

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Licensing

ClusterXL in HA mode

The prerequisites for an HA cluster are that it should comprise identical hardware (either physical or virtual), which, in its stable production state, runs identical versions of Check Point software. The caveat of a stable production state is that it is possible to use Multi-Version Cluster (MVC) mode during its transition to R81.10 or higher versions. This is not without certain limitations, but it allows for more gradual upgrades to verify new version stability and provide an easier fallback to earlier versions.

HA mode is defined in the ClusterXL and VRRP section of the cluster properties [1]. Under Select the cluster mode and configuration [2], we have two options, ClusterXL and VRRP. ClusterXL is selected by default [3] and, unless you have a very specific reason to use VRRP, ClusterXL should be your choice, as it provides the best failover experience. Under Tracking, the default selected option is to Log with additional alerting options available in the...

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