On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:51:48 -0500 Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Standalone advantages: > > The management station can go down for backup or imaging and the firewall > keeps right on working. My management is on Windows 2000 server and I > routinely image it every two weeks. I can restore the image to any Intel > hardware and make it work. I have sevearl backup images so I can go back and > restore any part, like the CA, that I would need. I've never had to do it, > though. > > If it's all on one box, you have to tamper with the firewall if there is a > management problem. Lose the firewall and you have lost all of your rules > and objects and have to pray that your script-generated backups are good. > You'll need to rebuild the gateway, patch it up and restore the backups, a > time-consuming process. I just lost an IP120 due to a hard drive failure. We > put the new one in, upgraded IPSO (downgraded from 3.8, actually), pushed > the policy from the separate management station and we were back up in an > hour from when we took it out of the box. > > Logs are stored on the management station, reducing the workload, memory > needs and disk space usage on the firewall. > > If you're using Windows, you can have the GUI clients installed on it as > well for convenience. > > It's quite a bit more fault-tolerant as far as I'm concerned, > > Ray
Are the documentations how to transfer the managment from the firewall (Nokia 440) to a windows server without recreating all the rules? Patrick -- "Live long and prosper, Spock." -- T'Pau "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain, and my friend." -- Spock Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
