Well... I would expect to have an available machine for the SmartCenter up and running in less than 24 hours, at least a temporary one.
But it is very good to keep in mind what Hugo pointed out. On 10/1/07, Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Sergio Alvarez wrote: > > > It sure does... That way you don't have "all your eggs in the same > basket". > > > > If the machine where your firewall resides dies, you still have all your > > rules on the SmartCenter machine, so getting back on line just requires > for > > you to get a backup machine, install SecurePlatform, re-establish SIC > and > > push the policies down. > > On the other hand, if your Smartcenter machine dies (and you have done > your > > homework and have taken backups), similarly you can bring a new machine, > > install the Smartcenter and load the backup. This takes a little more > time > > than bringing back up a fw module, but now you can take your time as > while > > the Smartcenter is gone from the network, your firewall module will > still be > > running and handling traffic with the last policy you installed on it. > > Basically having a Smartcenter down does not cause any downtime for your > > network. > > Untill the SMartCenter is in control of your VPN's. Then having no CRL > will in time kill the whole VPN community. (Been there, seen it happen to > a network with a serious amount of VPN tunnels.) > > You luck will run out in 7 days for sure. But occasional issues may cause > you to be in trouble after only 24 hours. > > So consider a down SmartCenter to be critical to VPN communities. > > Hugo. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ > This message is using 100% recycled electrons. > > Some men see computers as they are and say "Windows" > I use computers with Linux and say "Why Windows?" > (Thanks JFK, for this quote of George Bernard Shaw.) > > ================================================= > 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] > ================================================= > -- Sergio Alvarez (506)8301342 ================================================= 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] =================================================
