Mastering Checkpoint By Vikas Swami

GAIA Operating system overview Gaia is Check Point's next generation operating system for security applications. In Greek mythology, Gaia is the mother of all, representing closely integrated parts to form a single, efficient system. The Gaia Operating System supports the full portfolio of Check Point Software Blades, Gateway and Security Management products. Gaia is a single, unified network security Operating System that combines the best of Check Point's SecurePlatform operating system, and IPSO, the operating system from appliance security products. Gaia is available for all Check Point security appliances and open servers. Designed from the ground up for modern high-end deployments, Gaia includes support for:

Features  IPv4 and IPv6 - fully integrated into the Operating System.  High Connection Capacity - 64bit support.  Load Sharing - ClusterXL and Interface bonding.  High Availability - ClusterXL, VRRP, Interface bonding.  Dynamic and Multicast Routing - BGP, OSPF, RIP, and PIM-SM, PIM-DM, IGMP.  Easy to use Command Line Interface - Commands are structured using the same syntactic rules. An enhanced help system and auto-completion further simplifies user operation.  Role Based Administration - Enables Gaia administrators to create different roles. Administrators can allow users to access features by adding those functions to the user's role definition. Each role can include a combination of administrative (read/write) access to some features, monitoring (read-only) access to other features, and no access to other features.  Simple and Easy upgrade - from IPSO and SecurePlatform. Gaia Software Updates  Get updates for licensed Check Point products directly through the operating system.  Download and install the updates more quickly. Download automatically, manually, or periodically. Install manually or periodically.  Get email notifications for newly available updates and for downloads and installations.  Easy rollback from new update.

First Time Login through Console First time login through console using defualt username and password of admin/admin. Although lot of prominent features donot work lik sysconfig and cpconfig till them time you one time configure it using Web UI .As given in the snapshot below .

Accessing Web UI for First Time Connect to Management port of your Checkpoint appliance .Default IP add of your Checkpoint Appliance management port is 192.168.1.1 and default access is https on port 443 .If you are using old OS of Secure Platform then use port default port of 4434 for https .This document is pertaining to GAIA on smart appliance and OS is R75.40 . Configure your PC or Laptop to same subnet in order to access management interface .

First Time Screen of WEB UI of GAIA OS

After Login through Default username/password of admin/admin

You will be asked to change the default password to something more secure

Basic Settings Configuration

Choose the Products you want to install …