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Hello

Need some help with procedures on moving a SmartCentre to a new IP address.

I have read that one way i should create a Secondary SmartCentre with the new IP, this will require a eval license for HA. But from there it gets a bit lost.

There is a old pdf document from Checkpoint outlining promoting the Secondary to a Primary, that goes like this....

1 Select either an existing or a newly created Secondary SmartCenter Server and synchronize it with your other SmartCenter Servers. From the Secondary Smart Center Server perform the following manipulations:
2 Stop all running Check Point services by running the cpstop command.
3 Manually adjust the objects_5_0.C file as follows:
A Edit the former Primary Object definitions:
B Edit the selected Secondary Object definitions:
4 Run the cpprod_util FwSetPrimary 1 command to change the registry thereby setting this Server to the Primary Server.
5 Remove the $FWDIR/conf/mgmtha* files. They contain information about the current Secondary settings. These files will be recreated when you start the Services.
6 Make sure you have the mgmtha license on the newly promoted SmartCenter Server and run the cpstart command.
7 Via SmartDashboard, remove all occurrences of the old Primary Management object using the Where Used utility (right click on the object and select Where Used). Delete the old Primary Management Object
8 Check the definitions of Masters and Loggers according to the configuration; either Centrally Managed or Locally Managed.
9 Synchronize your other servers from the newly promoted SmartCenter Server.

What is the right way of doing this? or the way that will work? I do want the same server name (Windows) is that possible? And is it possible to rename the checkpoint host name?

Regards
AJ