My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. This is a short list of Checkpoint VSX Commands that I am compiling as I continue to work with CheckPoint VSX systems. The list is not comprehensive and may not work for everyone, so if you see errors, please contact me so I may correct them. Thanks! /ryan Check Point CLI "CP" Commands CLI Command Command Description vsx get View current shell … [Read more...]
Check Point Quick Reference – FW Monitor
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Overview: FW Monitor is a built-in firewall tool which needs no separate install on the device you wish to capture packets and interrogate connections. It is a functionality provided with the installation of the FW-1 package and syntax is also identical across all FW-1 installations. FW Monitor allows for sampling the connection from 4 different points in the firewall, … [Read more...]
Firewall Commands For Identifying Specific Routes
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. The Question: Using firewall commands, identify the route to specific destination/target without using the routing table (more specific) I was asked the question today, and blanked out... I have ran the Cisco and CheckPoint IPSO versions, but not Splat and still couldn't pull it from memory. Once I looked it up I felt silly, but knew it will be a good addition to my … [Read more...]
Useful Stuff
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. This post is a quasi-holding place for uncategorized things at the moment, with no rhyme or reason as to why its here or somewhere else: SCP files from a linux box or firewall to another linux box: SYNTAX = scp /path/to/local/file user@remote_host:/path/to/file/on/remote/host EXAMPLE = scp /var/tmp/todays-date-kernel-debug.tgz … [Read more...]
Check Point Firewall – Nokia IPSO CST Hanging or Taking Forever?
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Is your Nokia IPSO CST Not finishing? Trying to run a CST on your Nokia, but seems to be taking forever? I have had the same issue on various Nokia security appliances running on IPSO 4.2 and older. The problem ended up being hung process that was spawned by the CST program. It seems that CST calls "fw tab -u -t", and sometimes it just gets hung up, but will look to … [Read more...]
Check Point Firewall – Interfaces Reordered Upon Upgrade
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. A few days ago, one of our Check Point IAS M6 Firefly equiped, R70.20 Splat clusters, had a member fail due to "PLANAR VOLTAGE FAILURE", so says the IBM iLO event log. Since this is not solved by a simple power supply replacement, so an RMA replacement unit from Check Point was obtained. The new device came pre-loaded with R65 and no HFA's or hotfixes. So we distributed … [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...]