once more question, if the IP 350 suffers a power loss, will it reboot 
successfully & still work if the Smartcentre server is still unavailable?

Thanks

Dave






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> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:53:26 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] failure of management station FW1 - R55/R56
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:21, Gareth Williams
>  wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I am not sure whether you are aware but R55/56 is no longer supported so you
>> may not be able to raise a case with Checkpoint TAC.  Unfortunately if you
>> rebuild the management server and restore the backup that you currently have
>> it will NOT realise that the enforcement module has a newer policy and allow
>> you to restore from the gateway.  If you do restore your backup and your
>> firewall reboots etc it will try and fetch policy from the management
>> server, in this case it may take the old policy.  I am not sure how many
>> changes you have made since your last backup or how big your environment is,
>> but restoring that backup is probably going to be your best bet, short of
>> starting from scratch.  If the management server only manages one firewall
>> you could take a "cpinfo" from the firewall and open it in "infoview" (not
>> sure if this is publicly available).  This will allow to view the gateways
>> policy in smartdashboard and assist your in recreating any changes if you
>> decide to restore from  backup.
>>
>
> If he does restores the backup, he will have two options:
>
> - update the backup to match the current state as best as he can: from
> trouble tickets, e-mail with requested modifications and so on.
> - push the old policy and wait for people to screm when things break
> and fix them :)
>
>> Is it a case that the hard disks from the management server are completely
>> dead? If you can access the disks at all it may be possible to copy certain
>> key files in order to restore your management!
>>
>
> He can setup a new machine, run an upgrade_export on it, see what
> files the utility backs up and try to salvage those files from the
> dead disk(s) and archive them to create a self-made upgrade_export
> file and hope for the best when he'll run upgrade_import on the new
> smartcenter server.
>
> Eugeniu
>
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