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

Chapter 14: Working with ClusterXL High Availability

One of the first objects we created in our lab was a cluster consisting of two gateways. Generally, the term cluster is applied to a group of computers performing identical tasks. High-availability (HA) clusters are those that are designed to provide fault tolerance, maintaining uninterrupted functionality in the case of a failure of one or more of their members. Our cluster is running in HA mode, and it is time for us to take a closer look at how it works and at a few tools that we can use for its routine maintenance, diagnostics, and operation.

Considering the importance of firewalls and threat prevention gateways in any environment, often, it is imperative to assure their survivability in case of hardware failure, partial power loss, or connectivity loss. This is where fault tolerance in the form of HA is required.

Check Point offers several ways to achieve HA. After seeing how ClusterXL High Availability mode works, we...

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