Community resources and engagements
I’ll start this section with a brief trip down memory lane. Established in 2017, the Check Point user community known as CheckMates was slowly gaining traction. One of the people responsible for its development, Check Point Chief Evangelist, self-proclaimed and universally acknowledged geek, Moti Sagey, started a thread called My Top3 Check Point CLI commands. It tells you something about the community when it became the most visited place with a huge number of responses. Some comments were simple lists, while others expanded on their choices. A smaller number of users were posting scripts by using basic Check Point commands but extended their capabilities by adding formatting and interactivity (referred to as “one-liners”). By page 4, “one-liners” were becoming wrapped into three or four lines. Of course, things got out of hand and some became “one-pagers.” To get an idea about the size and complexity...