R75

Release Notes

29 March 2011

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Revision History
Date 29 March 2011 Description Added instructions about Endpoint Security VPN R75 ("What's New in R75" on page 5) Updated Compatibility with Gateways and Endpoint Clients (on page 16) to exclude support for NGX R62 gateways Updated DLP note in Security Gateway Software Blades (on page 13) Updated the supported web browsers for the DLP portal ("Security Gateway Software Blades" on page 13) 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) First release of this document

17 February 2011

27 January 2011

19 January 2011

30 December 2010

26 December 2010

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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
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.) 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 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 ClusterXL HA support quarantine database is synchronized between cluster members Incident storage at Management server

Cutting edge technology for DLP processes enforcement

Easy deployment for immediate data loss prevention

New DLP features:

Introduction to R75

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New Terms

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.

What's New in R75

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New Terms

What's New in R75

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New Terms

New Terms
These product and technology names have changed for this version: Name Before R75 Identity Logging SSL VPN Software Blade Name Starting with R75 Identity Awareness Mobile Access Software Blade

Provider-1 Provider-1 MDG Multi-domain server (MDS) Customer Customer Management Add-on (CMA) Customer Log Module (CLM) Multi-Domain Log Module (MLM)

Multi-Domain Security Management SmartDomain Manager Multi-Domain Server Domain Domain Management Server Domain Log Server 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)

What's New in R75

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Software Licensing

Supported Products
In This Section Software Licensing Build Numbers Supported Security Products by Platform Clients and Consoles by Windows Platform Supported Upgrade Paths and Interoperability 9 9 11 15 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 Points 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 customers 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 products build number, use the given command format or direction within the GUI. Software Blade / Product Security Gateway Security Management SmartConsole Applications Build Number Build 254 Build 111 Build 979000426 Verifying Build Number fw ver fwm ver Help > About Check Point <Application name> cvpn_ver

Mobile Access

Build 085

Supported Products

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Build Numbers

Software Blade / Product Multi-Domain Server SmartDomain Manager

Build Number Build 153 Build 979000125

Verifying Build Number fwm mds ver Help > About Check Point Multi-Domain Security Management ver cpshared_ver

SecurePlatform Infrastructure (SVN Foundation) Acceleration (Performance Pack) Advanced Networking (QoS) Advanced Networking (Routing) Monitoring (SVM Server) Management Portal

Build 145 Build 247

Build 017

sim ver -k

Build 013

fgate ver

Build 005

gated -ver

Build 011

rtm ver

Build 979000020

cpvinfo /opt/CPportalR75/portal/bin/smartportalstart cpsemd ver SVRServer ver dtps ver

SmartEvent SmartReporter Endpoint Policy Server (SecureClient Policy Server) SecuRemote/SecureClient UTM-1 Edge Firmware Endpoint Security Client R73 HFA1 Endpoint Security Server Compatibility Packages CPNGXCMP-R75-00 CPV40Cmp-R75-00 CPEdgecmp-R75-00 CPCON66CMP-R75-00 CPCON62CMP-R75-00 CPR71CMP-R75-00 CPSG80CMP-R75-00

Build 111 Build 157 Build 015

R60 HFA1 Build 019 8.1.21 7.6.165

Help > About Displayed on the default portal page Right-click the System Tray icon and select About About

7.60.076.000

Build 008 Build 008 Build 007 Build 006 Build 007 Build 012 Build 002

/opt/CPNGXCMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver /opt/CPV40Cmp-R75/bin/fw_loader ver /opt/CPEdgecmp-R75/bin/fw ver /opt/CPCON66CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver /opt/CPCON62CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver /opt/CPR71CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver /opt/CPSG80CMP-R75/bin/fw_loader ver

Supported Products

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Supported Security Products by Platform

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 Security Management Security Gateway Multi-Domain Security Management

Smart-1 Smart-1 SmartEvent (5, 25, 50)

Power-1

UTM-1

IPSO Disk1 based

IPSO Flash1 based

(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 Windows Server 2003, 2008 Windows XP, 7 RedHat Linux RHEL 5.0, 5.4 Crossbeam X-series
3

Solaris Ultra-SPARC 8, 9, 10

Security Management Security Gateway Multi-Domain Security Management

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

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Supported Security Products by Platform

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 Windows XP Windows 2003 Server Microsoft Windows 2008 Server Windows 7 Editions Professional N/A N/A Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate Service Pack SP3 SP1 , SP2 SP1, SP2 N/A
1

32 or 64-bit 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit, 64-bit 32-bit, 64-bit

2

RHEL 5.0 RedHat RHEL 5.4 kernel 2.6.18

N/A N/A

32-bit 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

Supported Products

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Supported Security Products by Platform

Security Gateway Software Blades

Software Blade Operating System Check Point Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Crossbeam X-series
1

Secure IPSO 6.2 IPSO 6.2 Windows Platform DiskFlashServer 2003 based based Firewall Firewall with 2 Identity Awareness IPSec VPN IPS Mobile Access DLP
4

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

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

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Supported Security Products by Platform

Security Management Software Blades

Software Blade Operating System Check Point Secure Platform IPSO 6.2 Diskbased Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows XP, 7 RedHat Solaris Linux RHEL 5.0, Ultra5.4 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

Supported Products

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Clients and Consoles by Windows Platform

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 Vista Server (SP1) (SP1) 2008 32-bit 64-bit (SP1-2) 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate & Enterprise 32-bit
2

Windows 7 Ultimate & Enterprise 64-bit

SmartConsole SmartDomain Manager SecureClient Endpoint Security VPN SSL Network Extender DLP UserCheck Identity Agent

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 Products

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Supported Upgrade Paths and Interoperability

Supported Upgrade Paths and Interoperability

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 Gateways Security Gateway DLP-1 IPS-1 Series 80 VSX Connectra NGX R65, R70, R70.1, R70.20, R70.30, R70.40, R71, R71.10, R71.20 R71 and higher R71 Series 80 VSX NGX R65, VSX NGX R67 Centrally Managed NGX R62 and R66 Version

Supported Products

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Supported Upgrade Paths and Interoperability

Release UTM-1 Edge GX Endpoint Clients SecureClient Endpoint Connect Endpoint Security

Version 7.5.x and above 4.0

up to SecureClient NGX R60 HFA 3 with support for Windows 7 32-bit up to Endpoint Security VPN R75 for Windows 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)

Supported Products

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SecurePlatform

Platform Provisions and Requirements

In This Section SecurePlatform IPSO Linux Microsoft Windows Solaris Maximum Number of Interfaces Supported by Platform 18 18 18 19 19 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

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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. 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).

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

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 Solaris 8 Required 108528-18 Recommended Notes If the patches 108528-17 and 113652-01 are installed, remove 113652-01, and then install 108528-18.

110380-03 109147-18

Platform Provisions and Requirements

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Maximum Number of Interfaces Supported by Platform

Platform

Required 109326-07 108434-01 108435-01

Recommended

Notes

Required only for 32 bit systems 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 MultiDomain Security Management on Sun MSeries servers. We do not recommend that you install Multi-Domain Security Management on Sun T-Series servers.

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).

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 SecurePlatform Max Number of Interfaces 1015 Notes 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 Windows

1024 32

Platform Provisions and Requirements

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Security Gateway Hardware Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

In This Section Security Gateway Hardware Requirements Security Management Hardware Requirements SmartConsole and SmartDomain Manager Hardware Requirements Multi-Domain Security Management Requirements SmartEvent Requirements SmartReporter Requirements Performance Pack SecureClient Requirements Endpoint Security Server and Client Requirements 21 22 22 23 23 23 24 24 25

Security Gateway Hardware Requirements

For open servers:
Component Processor Windows Intel Pentium IV or 1.5 GHz equivalent Free Disk Space Memory Optical Drive Network Adapter 1GB 512MB Yes One or more SecurePlatform on Open Servers Intel Pentium IV or 2 GHz equivalent 10GB 512MB Yes Linux Intel Pentium IV or 2 GHz equivalent 1.4GB 512MB Yes

One or more supported One or more cards

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Security Management Hardware Requirements

Security Management Hardware Requirements

For open servers:
Component Processor Windows Intel Pentium Processor E2140 or 2 GHz equivalent processor 1GB Linux SecurePlatform on Open Servers Solaris

Intel Pentium Intel Pentium Processor Sun Processor E2140 E2140 or 2 GHz UltraSPARC IV or 2 GHz equivalent processor and higher equivalent processor 1.4GB 10GB (installation includes OS) 1GB Yes (bootable) One or more 1GB

Free Disk Space

Memory Optical Drive Network Adapter

1GB Yes One or more

1GB Yes One or more

512MB Yes 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 CPU Windows Intel Pentium Processor E2140 or 2 GHz equivalent processor 512MB 500MB Yes minimum resolution: 1024 x 768

Memory Disk Space Optical Drive Video Adapter

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Multi-Domain Security Management Requirements

Multi-Domain Security Management Requirements

The minimum system requirements recommended for optimal performance: Component CPU Linux Solaris SecurePlatform Intel Pentium Processor E2140 or 2 GHz equivalent processor 4GB 10GB (install includes OS) Yes (bootable) Intel Pentium Processor UltraSPARC III E2140 or 2 GHz 900MHz equivalent processor 4GB 2GB 4GB 2GB

Memory Disk Space

Optical Drive

Yes

Yes

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 CPU Memory Disk Space Windows/Linux/SecurePlatform Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz 4GB 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.
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Performance Pack

SmartReporter can be installed on a Security Management server or on a dedicated machine. Component CPU Memory Disk Space Installation: Database: Windows & Linux Minimum Intel Pentium IV 2.0 GHz 1GB Windows & Linux Recommended Dual CPU 3.0 GHz 2GB (on 2 physical disks) 80MB 60GB (40GB for database, 20GB for temp directory) 80MB 80MB Solaris UltraSPARC III 900 MHz 1GB

100GB (60GB for 60GB (40GB for database, 40GB for temp database, 20GB for temp directory) directory) Yes Yes

DVD Drive

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 QuadCore 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).

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Endpoint Security Server and Client Requirements

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).

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Endpoint Security Server and Client Requirements

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

Known Limitations

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