My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Backup procedures Check Point provides three different procedures for backing up (and restoring) the operating system and networking parameters on your appliances. • Snapshot (Revert) • Backup (Restore) • upgrade_export Each of these procedures backs up certain parameters and has relative advantages (such as: file size, speed, and portability), which are fully … [Read more...]
Blue Coat Proxy – test http get
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. When troubleshooting user internet connection issues with a specific URL, that are returning the very unhelpful Blue Coat “TCP Error" message, I normally pop into the Blue Coat ProxySG appliance and run a test from the appliance to the URL in question. I will log into the ProxySG appliance via SSH, and issue the 'test http get' command below: test http get … [Read more...]
Blue Coat ProxySG – CLI Commands
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Here is a list of Blue Coat ProxySG CLI commands, that I have compiled from my studies, Blue Coat documents, and places around the web. This is by no means an exhaustive or comprehensive list, but is rather meant to be a command line KB of sorts - mainly for my quick reference. The list is split into standard and privileged mode commands. If the list proves useful to you, … [Read more...]
Check Point Firewall – SPLAT CLI Commands
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Here is a list of SPLAT CLI Commands commands for Checkpoint Secure Platform, that I have compiled from my studies, checkpoint documents, and places around the web. This is by no means an exhaustive or comprehensive list, but is rather meant to be a command line KB of sorts - mainly for my quick reference. The list is split into CP and FW commands. If the list proves … [Read more...]