[benny]

Hi Everyone

I am preparing to migrate my SmartCenter Management Station to a new hardware, IP Address and from win 2000 to 2003.

Could you look at the below step by step and let me know if there is anything i have missed. There are also a couple of questions in there.

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Migrating NG R55 SmartCenter to another hardware and IP address.

On current SmartCenter server

Add new SmartCenter Server to the firewall using the old smartcenter server

SmartDashboard

Manage > Network Objects > New… > Checkpoint… > gateway

Tick SVN foundation & Log Server & Secondary Management Station

Create a rule on the SmartCenter Server which allows Firewall-1 and CPD services from the above object to go to all gateways.

Does this include the following services:
CPD
CPD_Amon
FW1
And any other service that has FW1_* (As there are quite a few)

Push the rule to the managed gateways.

Run command

upgrade_export c:\Exportedconfig

copy exportedconfig.tgz to new SmartCenter Server

Run Setup on new SmartCenter Server
(Installing same components; SmartCenter Express & SmartConsole)

Run command

Upgrade_import c:\exportedconfig.tgz

reboot

Log into Checkpoint Web Site and generate the new certificates.

Import the new certificates. Where is the import utility for the new certificates.

Start and log in to the smartcenter console change the primary SmartCenter Object to the new IP Address.

Remove the secondary smartcenter management station created earlier.

Additional Queries…

Under… Policy > Global properties
Do I need to change the ‘Authenticate internal users with this suffix only:’

OU=users, O=SmartCenterSvr.domain.com.i3qdzi

Or does this get automatically changed.