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29 March 2011

R75

Release Notes

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Latest Software

We recommend that you install the most recent software release to stay up-to-date with the latest functional improvements, stability fixes, security enhancements and protection against new and evolving attacks.

Revision History

Date Description

29 March 2011 Added instructions about Endpoint Security VPN R75 ("What's New in R75" on page 5)

17 February 2011 Updated Compatibility with Gateways and Endpoint Clients (on page 16) to exclude support for NGX R62 gateways

27 January 2011 Updated DLP note in Security Gateway Software Blades (on page 13)

19 January 2011 Updated the supported web browsers for the DLP portal ("Security Gateway Software Blades" on page 13)

30 December 2010 Added that you must install HFA70 on NGX R65 for IPSO 6.2 before you upgrade to R75. ("Supported Management and Gateway Upgrade Paths" on page 16)

26 December 2010 First release of this document

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Contents

Important Information ............................................................................................. 3 Introduction to R75 ................................................................................................. 5 What's New in R75 .................................................................................................. 5

New Terms .......................................................................................................... 8 Minor Release Content ........................................................................................ 8

Supported Products ............................................................................................... 9 Software Licensing .............................................................................................. 9

Enforcement of IPS Software Blade Licenses ................................................. 9 Build Numbers ..................................................................................................... 9 Supported Security Products by Platform ...........................................................11

Security Software Containers .........................................................................11 Security Gateway Software Blades ................................................................13 Security Management Software Blades .........................................................14

Clients and Consoles by Windows Platform .......................................................15 Supported Upgrade Paths and Interoperability ...................................................16

Supported Management and Gateway Upgrade Paths ..................................16 Compatibility with Gateways and Endpoint Clients .........................................16 IPS-1 Upgrade Paths and Interoperability ......................................................17

Platform Provisions and Requirements .............................................................. 18 SecurePlatform ...................................................................................................18 IPSO ..................................................................................................................18 Linux ..................................................................................................................18 Microsoft Windows .............................................................................................19 Solaris ................................................................................................................19 Maximum Number of Interfaces Supported by Platform ......................................20

Minimum System Requirements .......................................................................... 21 Security Gateway Hardware Requirements ........................................................21 Security Management Hardware Requirements .................................................22 SmartConsole and SmartDomain Manager Hardware Requirements .................22 Multi-Domain Security Management Requirements ............................................23

Multi-Domain Security Management Resource Consumption ........................23 SmartEvent Requirements ..................................................................................23 SmartReporter Requirements .............................................................................23

Optimizing SmartReporter Performance ........................................................24 Performance Pack ..............................................................................................24 SecureClient Requirements ................................................................................24 Endpoint Security Server and Client Requirements ............................................25

Known Limitations ................................................................................................ 26

New Terms

Introduction to R75

Introduction to R75 Thank you for installing Check Point version R75. Please read this document carefully before installing R75.

Note - For more information about R75 and to download the software, go to the R75 Home Page (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk58362).

What's New in R75 Check Point R75 is based on the Software Blades Architecture™.

Check Point Identity Awareness™ in the Check Point Security Gateway™

Identity based Firewall and Application Control polices including users, user-group and machines

Logging of user identities makes troubleshooting simpler and allows better trend analysis

Multiple and flexible methods for obtaining user identity including seamless integration with Active Directory (no need to install agent on Domain Controller), captive web portal for clientless user authentication or thin client for strong authentication and impersonation prevention based on unique patent-pending technology for light signature of packet information

Scalable identity sharing between multiple gateways to identify users in one or many sites and share with other gateways in the same or different sites

Check Point Application Control Software Blade™

Granular Application Control to identify, allow or block thousands of applications

Largest application library with AppWiki - Comprehensive application control leveraging the largest application library that scans and detects more than 100,000 applications and Social Network widgets

Auto-updates for applications database on the gateway (NO need to re-install policy)

Detect rapidly changing Social Network Widgets via online service

Integrated Check Point DLP™ Software Blade™

Check Point's innovative Data Loss Prevention™, now available as an integrated Software Blade.

Prevents data loss of critical business information

Network-based solution prevents breach of corporate data

Compliance with data protection standards (such as PCI-DSS, HIPPA, GLBA, SOX, etc.)

Cutting edge technology for DLP processes enforcement

Innovative MultiSpect™ data classification engine combines users, content and process into accurate decisions

New UserCheck™ technology empowers users to remediate incidents

Low maintenance, self-educating system does not require IT/security personnel in incident handling while educating the users on proper data sharing policies

Easy deployment for immediate data loss prevention

Less the one day deployment of preventative DLP solution

Over 250 pre-defined types to create your own policy

Better control and auditing capabilities with centralized security management

New DLP features:

ClusterXL® HA support quarantine database is synchronized between cluster members

Incident storage at Management server

http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk58362

New Terms

What's New in R75

Check Point Mobile Access Blade™

Remote Access - SSL VPN technology is used for secure encrypted communication from unmanaged mobile devices, PCs and Macs to your corporate IT infrastructure

Check Point Mobile™ Client - For simple and secure connectivity to corporate resources from smartphones and PCs

Mobile Access Portal - For connecting securely to corporate resources through a portal from a web browser

SSL Network Extender (On-demand client - SNX) - For secure connectivity to corporate resources using non-web-based applications via an on-demand, dissolvable client

Endpoint Security™ VPN R75

Endpoint Security VPN introduces the Next Generation of SecureClient®, including 64-bit support. It

provides mobile users seamless and secure connectivity to corporate resources by establishing an encrypted and authenticated IPSec tunnel with Check Point Security Gateways.

This version includes a deployment package of Endpoint Security VPN R75. By default, Endpoint Connect clients are upgraded automatically to Endpoint Security VPN R75. After you upgrade the Security Management server and install a policy, users who connect with Endpoint Connect clients get a prompt to accept an automatic upgrade. The included deployment package cannot upgrade SecureClient to Endpoint Security VPN R75. SecureClient users are not affected.

To disable the automatic upgrade of the VPN clients, do this before installing or upgrading the Security Management server:

1. Open Global Properties > Remote Access > Endpoint Connect.

2. Set Client upgrade mode to Do not upgrade.

Enhanced Check Point IPS™ Signature Support

Increase scalability of the IPS engine when adding many more protections

Decrease memory footprint (currently some pattern based protections require large memory footprint)

Provide a new framework for using non-regular keywords replacing complex regular expressions

Enhance the IPS engine to support simpler and more efficient CIFS and DCE-RPC protections

Multi-Domain Security Management™ (based on proven Provider-1® technology)

R75 supports the new licensing scheme of Multi-Domain Security Management. You can easily convert an existing Security Management deployment to a Multi-Domain Security Management deployment by adding Software Blades.

Other Improvements

Security Management Server supports Series 80 Appliances™ gateways for centrally managed branch offices

You can set a different authentication method per blade on the same gateway. For example, a user can login to Mobile Access with certificate authentication and login to DLP with username and password authentication. In Gateway Properties, configure the desired authentication method for Check Point IPSec VPN™ and Mobile Access in its respective Authentication page, and for Identity Awareness in its Authentication Settings page.

You can now use multiple portals over port 443 and port 80. For example, the SecurePlatform™ Web User interface and the Mobile Access portal can both be on port 443. In the SmartDashboard™ Gateway properties window, set the Portal URL for the different portals on the portal configuration pages.

The user search for remote access users works according to the user groups. If a user authenticates with an IPSEC VPN client and the user is in the LDAP groups of a Remote Access VPN Community, then the user will be found in the LDAP server. If a user authenticates to the Mobile Access portal, and the user is defined in the Access to Application rules as part of the Internal Database groups, the user will be found in the Internal Database.

New Terms

What's New in R75

New Terms

What's New in R75

New Terms These product and technology names have changed for this version:

Name Before R75 Name Starting with R75

Identity Logging Identity Awareness

SSL VPN Software Blade Mobile Access Software Blade

Provider-1 Multi-Domain Security Management

Provider-1 MDG SmartDomain Manager

Multi-domain server (MDS) Multi-Domain Server

Customer Domain

Customer Management Add-on (CMA) Domain Management Server

Customer Log Module (CLM) Domain Log Server

Multi-Domain Log Module (MLM) Multi-Domain Log Server

Minor Release Content This release includes fixes and improvements that were initially distributed as part of NGX R65 HFA 70, R70.40 and R71.10. For more information about those releases, refer to:

R71.10 Release Notes (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?id=10909)

R70.40 Release Notes (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?id=10770)

VPN-1 NGX R65 HFA 70 Release Notes (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?ID=10703)

Provider-1 NGX R65 HFA 70 Release Notes (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?ID=10704)

http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?id=10909

http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?id=10770



Software Licensing

Supported Products

Supported Products

In This Section

Software Licensing 9

Build Numbers 9

Supported Security Products by Platform 11

Clients and Consoles by Windows Platform 15

Supported Upgrade Paths and Interoperability 16

Software Licensing From version R71, customers are required to use Software Blade licenses. If you have not yet migrated to Software Blade licenses, follow the migration options from Check Point’s website (http://www.checkpoint.com/products/promo/software-blades/upgrade/index.html).

From R71, the software license enforcement module checks that users have current Software Blade Licensing. Users that have installed R71 software using NGX based licenses and not Software Blade licenses, will receive warnings on the Security Gateways and SmartDashboard.

Enforcement of IPS Software Blade Licenses Security Gateways with IPS Software Blades need to be under a valid IPS contract that has to be renewed annually. To manage your contracts go to your UserCenter account or contact your reseller.

Indications and notifications that IPS service contracts are expiring will appear in multiple locations, including the overview window of IPS in the SmartDashboard, SmartUpdate, and in the product reports of the customer’s Check Point UserCenter account.

If an IPS service contract has expired and the contract has not been renewed, the blade will remain operational with a signature set that was included in the GA of R70 (Q1/2009). Renew the IPS service contract to retrieve a full and updated signature set.

For more information about the IPS contract enforcement, refer to sk44175 (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk44175).

Build Numbers The following table lists all R75 software products available, and the build numbers as they are distributed on the product DVD. To verify each product’s build number, use the given command format or direction within the GUI.

Software Blade / Product Build Number Verifying Build Number

Security Gateway Build 254 fw ver

Security Management Build 111 fwm ver

SmartConsole Applications Build 979000426 Help > About Check Point <Application name>

Mobile Access Build 085 cvpn_ver

http://www.checkpoint.com/products/promo/software-blades/upgrade/index.html


Build Numbers

Supported Products

Software Blade / Product Build Number Verifying Build Number

Multi-Domain Server Build 153 fwm mds ver

SmartDomain Manager Build 979000125 Help > About Check Point Multi-Domain Security Management

SecurePlatform Build 145 ver

Infrastructure (SVN Foundation)

Build 247 cpshared_ver

Acceleration (Performance Pack)

Build 017 sim ver -k

Advanced Networking (QoS)

Build 013 fgate ver

Advanced Networking (Routing)

Build 005 gated -ver

Monitoring (SVM Server)

Build 011 rtm ver

Management Portal Build 979000020 cpvinfo /opt/CPportal-

R75/portal/bin/smartportalstart

SmartEvent Build 111 cpsemd ver

SmartReporter Build 157 SVRServer ver

Endpoint Policy Server (SecureClient Policy Server)

Build 015 dtps ver

SecuRemote/SecureClient R60 HFA1 Build 019 Help > About

UTM-1 Edge Firmware 8.1.21 Displayed on the default portal page

Endpoint Security Client R73 HFA1

7.6.165 Right-click the System Tray icon and select About

Endpoint Security Server 7.60.076.000 About

Compatibility Packages

CPNGXCMP-R75-00 Build 008 /opt/CPNGXCMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver

CPV40Cmp-R75-00 Build 008 /opt/CPV40Cmp-R75/bin/fw_loader ver

CPEdgecmp-R75-00 Build 007 /opt/CPEdgecmp-R75/bin/fw ver

CPCON66CMP-R75-00 Build 006 /opt/CPCON66CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver

CPCON62CMP-R75-00 Build 007 /opt/CPCON62CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver

CPR71CMP-R75-00 Build 012 /opt/CPR71CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver

CPSG80CMP-R75-00 Build 002 /opt/CPSG80CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver

Supported Security Products by Platform

Supported Products

Supported Security Products by Platform These tables show the security products related to this release and on which platforms they are supported.

Security Software Containers Software containers are supported on these operating systems and platforms.

Software Blade Containers

Check Point Platforms and Operating Systems

Secure Platform

Smart-1

Smart-1 SmartEvent

Power-1 UTM-1 IPSO

Disk-based

1

IPSO

Flash-based

1

Security Management

(5, 25, 50)

Security Gateway

Multi-Domain Security Management

(50, 150)

Software Blade Containers

Other Platforms and Operating Systems

For more about supported operating system versions, refer to Operating System Versions (on page 12).

Microsoft RedHat Linux Crossbeam3 Solaris

Windows Server

2003, 2008

Windows

XP, 7

RHEL

5.0, 5.4

X-series Ultra-SPARC

8, 9, 10

Security Management

Security Gateway

Multi-Domain Security Management

2

Notes about Security Software Containers

1. The supported IP Appliances models are 150, 290, 390, 560, 690, 1280, and 2450.

2. We recommend that you install Multi-Domain Security Management on Sun M-Series servers. We do not recommend that you install Multi-Domain Security Management on Sun T-Series servers.

3. Crossbeam support is planned to be available in Q1 '11.


Supported Products

Operating System Versions

The versions of the Microsoft and RedHat operating systems that are listed in the Security Software Containers table ("Security Software Containers" on page 11) are:

Operating System Editions Service Pack 32 or 64-bit

Microsoft

Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit

Windows 2003 Server N/A SP11, SP2 32-bit

Windows 2008 Server N/A SP1, SP2 32-bit, 64-bit2

Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate

N/A 32-bit, 64-bit

RedHat

RHEL 5.0 N/A 32-bit

RHEL 5.4 kernel 2.6.18 N/A 32-bit

Notes -

1. For Windows 2003 SP1, you must install the hotifx specified in Microsoft KB 906469 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906469).

2. Windows 2008 Server 64-bit is supported for Security Management only.

Dedicated Gateways

To install R75 on an R71 DLP open server, do a clean install of R75.

These dedicated gateways cannot be upgraded to R75:

Open Server - IPS-1 Sensor, VSX

Appliances - DLP-1, Series 80, UTM-1 Edge, IPS-1 Sensor, VSX-1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906469


Supported Products

Security Gateway Software Blades

Software Blade Operating System

Check Point Microsoft Crossbeam1

Secure Platform

IPSO 6.2 Disk- based

IPSO 6.2 Flash- based

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008

X-series

Firewall

Firewall with Identity Awareness

2

3

3

IPSec VPN

IPS

Mobile Access

DLP4

Application Control

Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware

URL Filtering

Anti-Spam & Email Security

Web Security

Advanced Networking - QOS

Advanced Networking - Dynamic Routing and Multicast Support

Acceleration & Clustering 5

5

6

Notes about Security Gateway Software Blades

1. Crossbeam support is planned to be available in Q1 '11.

2. Identity Awareness supports connections to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) on Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Connections to AD on Windows Server 2000 is not supported.

3. IPSO supports identity enforcement and logging. For Identity Acquisition (AD Query, Identity Agents and Captive Portal) use a SecurePlatform gateway and share the identities with your IPSO gateways.

4. DLP is supported in High-Availability clusters, including Full HA.

On UTM-1 130/270, you can either use DLP with Firewall and other Security Gateway software blades, or with Firewall and Security Management software blades.

The DLP portal supports these web browsers: Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8; Firefox 3; Chrome 8; and Safari 5.

5. Only Clustering is supported on Windows. Acceleration is not supported.

6. Only third-party clustering is supported on Crossbeam.


Supported Products

Security Management Software Blades

Software Blade Operating System

Check Point Microsoft RedHat Linux

Solaris

Secure Platform

IPSO 6.2 Disk- based

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008

Windows XP, 7

RHEL 5.0, 5.4

Ultra- SPARC

Network Policy Management

Network Policy Management with Identity Awareness

Endpoint Policy Management

Logging & Status

Monitoring

SmartProvisioning

Management Portal*

User Directory

SmartWorkflow

SmartEvent

SmartReporter

* Management Portal is supported on the following Web browsers: Internet Explorer 7, and Mozilla Firefox 1.5 - 3.0

Clients and Consoles by Windows Platform

Supported Products

Clients and Consoles by Windows Platform

Check Point Product

XP Home (SP3) 32-bit

XP Pro (SP3) 32-bit

Server 2003 (SP1-2) 32-bit

Vista (SP1) 32-bit

Vista (SP1) 64-bit

Server 2008 (SP1-2) 32-bit

Windows 7 Ultimate & Enterprise 32-bit

Windows 7 Ultimate & Enterprise 64-bit

SmartConsole

SmartDomain Manager

SecureClient

Endpoint Security VPN

2

2

SSL Network Extender

1

1

DLP UserCheck

Identity Agent 2

2

Notes about Clients and Consoles

1. SSL Network Extender is supported on Windows 7 for Network Mode only.

2. Endpoint Security VPN and Identity Agent clients support all editions of Windows 7.

Supported Upgrade Paths and Interoperability

Supported Products


R75 supports upgrading from lower software versions and management of lower Security Gateway versions.

Supported Management and Gateway Upgrade Paths You can upgrade these Security Management server and Security Gateway versions to R75:

NGX R65

NGX R65 for SecurePlatform 2.6

NGX R65 for IPSO 6.2 (with HFA70 only)

NGX R65 Connectra NGX R66 Plug-in

NGX R65 with Messaging Security

NGX R65 VSX NGX R65 Management Plug-in

NGX R65.3

NGX R65 UTM-1/Power-1

R70, R70.1, R70.20, R70.30, R70.40

R71, R71.10, R71.20

Important

Upgrading from NGX R65.4 to R75 or higher is not supported.

To upgrade Check Point Suite Products lower than NGX R65 to R75, you must first upgrade to NGX R65 and then to R75.

Upgrading from NGX R65

When you upgrade from NGX R65, only these plug-ins may be present: Connectra, SmartProvisioning, VSX, and Messaging Security. The presence of any other plug-in will cause the upgrade process to fail.

If you upgrade from NGX R65 with plug-ins to R75, and later want to uninstall R75 (rollback to NGX R65), follow the instructions in sk37252 (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk37252).

Compatibility with Gateways and Endpoint Clients R75 Security Management server can also manage gateways and endpoint clients with these versions:

Release Version

Gateways

Security Gateway NGX R65, R70, R70.1, R70.20, R70.30, R70.40, R71, R71.10, R71.20

DLP-1 R71 and higher

IPS-1 R71

Series 80 Series 80

VSX VSX NGX R65, VSX NGX R67

Connectra Centrally Managed NGX R62 and R66



Supported Products

Release Version

UTM-1 Edge 7.5.x and above

GX 4.0

Endpoint Clients

SecureClient up to SecureClient NGX R60 HFA 3 with support for Windows 7 32-bit

Endpoint Connect up to Endpoint Security VPN R75 for Windows

Endpoint Security up to R73 HFA1

Note -

R75 Security Management servers cannot manage gateway versions lower than NGX R65.

IPS-1 Upgrade Paths and Interoperability R75 Security Management servers can only manage R71 IPS-1 Sensors. To upgrade pre-R71 IPS-1 Sensors, do a clean install of R71 IPS-1 Sensor software on the IPS-1 Sensor. (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?ID=10327)


SecurePlatform

Platform Provisions and Requirements


In This Section

SecurePlatform 18

IPSO 18

Linux 18

Microsoft Windows 19

Solaris 19

Maximum Number of Interfaces Supported by Platform 20

SecurePlatform This release is shipped with the latest SecurePlatform operating system, which supports a large variety of hardware, including open servers and network interface cards. See a comprehensive list of certified hardware (http://www.checkpoint.com/services/techsupport/hcl/index.html ).

Check this list before installing SecurePlatform on the target hardware.

Note - Cross-platform High Availability is supported if all of the platforms are either SecurePlatform, Linux, or Solaris. It is not supported with Windows and non-Windows platforms (SecurePlatform, Linux, and Solaris).

IPSO When installing this release on IPSO:

Advanced Routing and SecureXL are included by default.

Clustering on IPSO supports VRRP and IP Clustering.

UTM-1 Edge devices cannot be managed from a Security Management server running on IPSO.

All available configurations (Disk-based, Flash-basedand Hybrid) of currently available IP Series platforms are supported.

Linux Before you install Security Management on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5:

1. Install the sharutils-4.6.1-2 package

a) Check if you have the sharutils-4.6.1-2 package installed by running: rpm -qa | grep sharutils-4.6.1-2

b) If the package is not already installed, install it by running: rpm –i sharutils-4.6.1-2.i386.rpm

This package can be found on CD 3 of RHEL 5.

2. Install the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 package

http://www.checkpoint.com/services/techsupport/hcl/index.html

Microsoft Windows


a) Check if you have the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 package by running: rpm –qa | grep compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61

b) If the package is not already installed, install it by running: rpm –i compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm

This package can be found on CD 2 of RHEL 5.

3. Disable SeLinux

a) Check if SeLinux is disabled by running: getenforce

b) If SeLinux is enabled, disable it by setting SELINUX=disabled in the /etc/selinux/config file

and rebooting the machine.


Microsoft Windows High Availability Legacy mode is not supported on Windows.


Solaris Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management are supported with Solaris running on UltraSPARC 64-bit platforms (see Management Products by Platform ("Supported Security Products by Platform" on page 11)). R71 Security Gateways are not supported on Solaris.

Required Packages

SUNWlibC

SUNWlibCx (except Solaris 10)

SUNWter

SUNWadmc

SUNWadmfw

Required Patches

The patches listed below are required to run Check Point software on Solaris platforms. They can be downloaded from: http://sunsolve.sun.com (http://sunsolve.sun.com).

To display your current patch level, use the command: showrev -p | grep <patch number>

Platform Required Recommended Notes

Solaris 8

108528-18 If the patches 108528-17 and 113652-01 are installed, remove 113652-01, and then install 108528-18.

110380-03

109147-18

http://sunsolve.sun.com/

Maximum Number of Interfaces Supported by Platform


Platform Required Recommended Notes

109326-07

108434-01 Required only for 32 bit systems

108435-01 Required only for 64 bit systems

109147-40 or higher

Solaris 9

112233-12

112902-07

116561-03 Only if dmfe(7D) Ethernet driver is defined on the machine

112963-25 or higher

Solaris 10 117461-08 or higher

We recommend that you install Multi-Domain Security Management on Sun M-Series servers. We do not recommend that you install Multi-Domain Security Management on Sun T-Series servers.


Maximum Number of Interfaces Supported by Platform

The maximum number of interfaces supported (physical and virtual) is shown by platform in the following table.

Platform Max Number of Interfaces Notes

SecurePlatform 1015 1. SecurePlatform supports 255 virtual interfaces per physical interface.

2. When using Dynamic Routing on SecurePlatform, 200 virtual interfaces per physical interface are supported.

IPSO 1024

Windows 32

Security Gateway Hardware Requirements

Minimum System Requirements


In This Section

Security Gateway Hardware Requirements 21

Security Management Hardware Requirements 22

SmartConsole and SmartDomain Manager Hardware Requirements 22

Multi-Domain Security Management Requirements 23

SmartEvent Requirements 23

SmartReporter Requirements 23

Performance Pack 24

SecureClient Requirements 24

Endpoint Security Server and Client Requirements 25

Security Gateway Hardware Requirements

For open servers:

Component Windows SecurePlatform on Open Servers

Linux

Processor Intel Pentium IV or

1.5 GHz equivalent

Intel Pentium IV or

2 GHz equivalent

Intel Pentium IV or

2 GHz equivalent

Free Disk Space 1GB 10GB 1.4GB

Memory 512MB 512MB 512MB

Optical Drive Yes Yes Yes

Network Adapter One or more One or more supported cards

One or more

Security Management Hardware Requirements


Security Management Hardware Requirements

For open servers:

Component Windows Linux SecurePlatform on Open Servers

Solaris

Processor Intel Pentium Processor E2140 or 2 GHz equivalent processor

Intel Pentium Processor E2140 or 2 GHz equivalent processor


Sun UltraSPARC IV and higher

Free Disk Space 1GB 1.4GB 10GB (installation includes OS)

1GB

Memory 1GB 1GB 1GB 512MB

Optical Drive Yes Yes Yes (bootable) Yes

Network Adapter One or more One or more One or more One or more

SmartConsole and SmartDomain Manager Hardware Requirements

The following table shows the minimum hardware requirements for console applications, including: SmartDashboard, SmartView Tracker, SmartView Monitor, SmartProvisioning, SmartReporter, and SmartEvent, SecureClient Packaging Tool, SmartUpdate, and SmartDomain Manager.

Component Windows

CPU Intel Pentium Processor E2140 or 2 GHz equivalent processor

Memory 512MB

Disk Space 500MB

Optical Drive Yes

Video Adapter minimum resolution: 1024 x 768

Multi-Domain Security Management Requirements


Multi-Domain Security Management Requirements

The minimum system requirements recommended for optimal performance:

Component Linux Solaris SecurePlatform

CPU Intel Pentium Processor E2140 or 2 GHz equivalent processor

UltraSPARC III 900MHz


Memory 4GB 4GB 4GB

Disk Space 2GB 2GB 10GB (install includes OS)

Optical Drive Yes Yes Yes (bootable)

Multi-Domain Security Management Resource Consumption

Actual disk space consumption depends on the scale of the deployment. The larger the deployment, the more disk space, memory, and CPU is required.

The Multi-Domain Security Management disk space requirements are:

For basic Multi-Domain Server installation: 2GB (1GB /opt; 1GB /var/opt).

For each Domain Management Server: 400MB (for the Domain Management Server directory located in

/var/opt)

SmartEvent Requirements SmartEvent can be installed on a Security Management server or on a dedicated machine.

Component Windows/Linux/SecurePlatform

CPU Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz

Memory 4GB

Disk Space 25GB

SmartEvent is not supported on Solaris platforms.

Note - To optimize SmartEvent performance:

Use the fastest disk available with the highest RPM, and a large buffer size.

Increase the machine's memory.

SmartReporter Requirements These hardware requirements are for a SmartReporter server that processes at least 15GB of logs per day and generates reports according to the performance numbers. For deployments that will generate fewer logs per day, a machine with less CPU or memory can be used, but this may cause performance degradation.

Performance Pack


SmartReporter can be installed on a Security Management server or on a dedicated machine.

Component Windows & Linux Minimum Windows & Linux Recommended

Solaris

CPU Intel Pentium IV 2.0 GHz Dual CPU 3.0 GHz UltraSPARC III 900 MHz

Memory 1GB 2GB 1GB

Disk Space Installation:

Database:

80MB

60GB (40GB for database, 20GB for temp directory)

(on 2 physical disks)

80MB


80MB


DVD Drive Yes Yes Yes

Optimizing SmartReporter Performance The following tips are recommended to optimize SmartReporter performance:

Disable DNS resolution - consolidation performance may improve to 32GB of logs per day.

Configure the network connection between the SmartReporter server and the Security Management or Log server to the optimal speed.

Use the fastest disk available with the highest RPM (revolutions per minute) and a large buffer size.

Use UpdateMySQLConfig to tune the database configuration and adjust the consolidation memory

buffers to use the additional memory.

Increase the machine's memory, as it significantly improves performance.

Install an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for the SmartReporter Server.

Performance Pack The recommended platform configuration is to use Performance Pack on a platform configured with a Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5xxx with 6GB RAM, or more.

Check Point appliances with such configuration include:

Power-1 11000 Series

Examples of open servers with such configurations include:

HP ProLiant DL-360 G6

HP ProLiant DL-380 G6

Dell PowerEdge R610

Dell PowerEdge R710

IBM System x3550 M2

IBM System x3650 M2

SecureClient Requirements For information about SecureClient Requirements, see the SecureClient NGX R66 Release Notes (http://downloads.checkpoint.com/dc/download.htm?ID=8371).

http://downloads.checkpoint.com/dc/download.htm?ID=8371

Endpoint Security Server and Client Requirements



For Endpoint Security Server and Client requirements, refer to the Endpoint Security R73 HFA1 Release Notes (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/documentation_download?ID=11547).



Known Limitations

Known Limitations Known Limitations for R75 are in sk59040. (http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk59040)


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