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[Michelle Benitone]

Thecheckpoint EMS was working fine until 3-4 days and now i can not install a new client which is very weird. It can not connect to server (attachment 1). I checked the previously installed clients on other PCs and they are connected to the server but the anti malware db is not updated and is shown in the Smart Console (attachment 2).

I checked ports 80 and 4434 if they are working with telnet and shows that the EMS is listening on those ports.. Also i checked if they are any logs on the endpoints where the client is stuck but could not find any..

I have done all this that you wrote. But after 2 days trying i managed to fix it by upgrading the version from 81.10 to 81.20.. But i still do not know what was the problem.. No changes made, just by itself it stopped working..

I managed to solve the installation problem by upgrading the checkpoint version to 81.20 but i still have the antimalware db not updating.. I mean some of the PCs are updated but some not.. I get error that server is not available.. The PCs that are up to date are updated via some website:

I managed to solve the first problem with the connection by upgrading the server from 81.10 to 82 version and now that works. But i still have problems with anti malware update from server.. I changed to policy to get the malware signatures from external server as a second option but that is not good because it congests the Internet bandwidth..

We have been using Client Auth in our firewall policies just about forever. These rules are used to limit exposure to our most critical assets by requiring MFA (we use SecurID as the authenticator) before a user can access certain assets. These assets have a variety of different access methods - https, ssh, and a number of "non-standard" ports/interfaces.

Client Auth is called legacy authentication for a reason. It is not developed for quite a few years. Moreover, legacy authentication is really bad for performance, as it disables acceleration templates.

What you want to do is to use Identity Awareness. If client based, it covers both your points transparently. If you do not want to install IA clients, or if those PCs your users are accessing from are unmanaged, users can sign into IA portal before accessing protected assets.

We do use IA awareness (via AD Query) to control access to certain resources. We still use Client Auth because we can require a user to use MFA before accessing our most critical resources (and honestly, because IA has not been 100% reliable). If I can replicate this with Captive Portal, I will use that, but from what I see in the documentation:

Captive Portal is a simple method that authenticates users with a web interface. When users try to access a protected web resource, they enter authentication information in a form that shows in their web browser.

Since we already use IA with AD Query, can AD Query to be used for certain IA rules, and for other rules can I force the use of manual Captive Portal (and RADIUS, with which I can leverage our SecurID MFA) for other rules?

We're new to Checkpoint and have been hyper-focused on the rest of the infrastructure build during this transition away from our old firewalls/gateways to the new Checkpoint platform. One of the last pieces of this project is the end user's VPN access.

We're coming from Cisco ASA's and using AnyConnect. I'm struggling at the moment to wrap my head around how this whole new VPN platform really works. We had a Checkpoint engineer configure it months ago during one of our meetings but now that we're at the point where we need to start using it on a mass scale and making changes... I have a ton of questions.

It's mostly just simple stuff too that I can't seem to figure out... like, where is the password lockout policy? How do I edit it? What is the "proper" way to add a user/computer to have VPN access? How do I see how many of our licenses are currently in use? Why was our first EPS package only 50MB but the new one I just exported is 750MB? .... stuff like this.

What is the "proper" way to add a user/computer to have VPN access? --> AFAIK it is not controlled in a per user/pc basis, it is based on groups, by default all users can login on the vpn, if you wan tor estric this use a specidic LDAP group on the remote access community.: How to restrict the MS Active Directory Authentication for remote access VPN to specific AD Groups

Sounds like you initially deployed a "thin" EPS client initially and other blades were included in the subsequent one.

However, if all you're using is Remote Access, you don't even need to do it from Endpoint Management, but you can create custom installation packages of the Remote Access VPN clients (smaller than full Endpoint install) using the VPN Configuration Utility: _doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solut...

You only need to use the Endpoint management to deploy features other than Remote Access VPN.

Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like load_checkpoint attempts to read a pickled state file such as would be produced from something like trainer.save_checkpoint(). None of my files are pickled state files. They appear to be the output of tf1.train.Saver().save().

To give some context here is what I'm trying to accomplish.

I want to create a config profile to push to my mac user's for the Checkpoint Endpoint VPN client without having it install the Checkpoint firewall app.

Whatever package I download from checkpoint (the pkg, the dmg, the zipp) it seems the checkpoint firewall app is bundled into the installer. I've tried going to composer route to run the installation of the endpoint vpn client, then deleting the firewall app but it looks like starting with version 84.30 the plist, configuration files don't push out so I can't replicate that install from the created pkg from composer to other machines.

I recognize this is a query from the summer, but I'm curious if you found any success? I'm in the exact same boat, and while I included commands to remove the Endpoint application, I now have users who are being tormented by a system extension message that appears every 5 minutes. I've opened a ticket with their support team, but I often find more complete answers here.

I have used this script and it worked flawlessly, great script. But somehow checkpoint agent is not taking the configurations deployed through Jamf Pro i.e., IP/Hostname it needs to connect. Any suggestion pl?

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I wanted to ask you what may be the problem to my smartconsole or server that it can not update/download the latest endpoint client package.. I go to SmartEndpoint and go to deployment and there i try to download the latest client - 86.25.5060 and it is just ongoing and is not downloading.. here is a screenshut of it. Also after a while it stops and says that there is an error connecting to the checkpoint.com servers to download it - also a screenshut.. The version i am stuck with is 85.20.1115. Can you help me download the latest client because with this version i do not have the windows 11 support.

Download the latest client from the Endpoint Security Homepage Endpoint Security Homepage (checkpoint.com) (sk117536), unpack the .zip archive and open the same window you're in right now on SmartEndpoint.

This is an overview of the workflow to give your employees remote access to your VPN Security Gateway Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to inspect traffic and enforce Security Policies for connected network resources..

Enable the IPsec VPN Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that provides a Site to Site VPN and Remote Access VPN access. Software Blade Specific security solution (module): (1) On a Security Gateway, each Software Blade inspects specific characteristics of the traffic (2) On a Management Server, each Software Blade enables different management capabilities. on the Security Gateway and do basic Security Gateway configuration (see Basic Security Gateway Configuration).

Add the Security Gateway to the Remote Access VPN An encrypted tunnel between remote access clients (such as Endpoint Security VPN) and a Security Gateway. Community (see Basic Security Gateway Configuration).

Configure VPN access rules in the security policy Collection of rules that control network traffic and enforce organization guidelines for data protection and access to resources with packet inspection. (see Configuring VPN Access Rules for Remote Access).

In SmartConsole Check Point GUI application used to manage a Check Point environment - configure Security Policies, configure devices, monitor products and events, install updates, and so on., right click the Security Gateway (Cluster Two or more Security Gateways that work together in a redundant configuration - High Availability, or Load Sharing.) object and select Edit.

By default, the Remote Access VPN Community includes a user group, All Users, that includes all defined users. You can use this group or add different user groups to the Remote Access VPN Community. The community can contain users defined in LDAP, which includes Active Directory, or users defined on the Security Management Server Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to manage the objects and policies in a Check Point environment within a single management Domain. Synonym: Single-Domain Security Management Server..

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