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Hello folks,

I recently had the same issue, and had performed the advice from the posts above, as well as some other more adventurous attempts to remove any exsisting certificates suggested by the phoneboy bible.

It did not however correct the problem, from what I could work out, the CA server itself was not operational. SIC was uninitialised between the enforcement module and Server, there was no DN, however we can burn rules to the gateway without problems (?). We ended up having to re-image the server from a tape backup to allow us to burn rules again after we ran the reset_SIC. The problem still exsists and our next step is going to have to re-install SmartCenter Server from the CD to re-initialise the CA.

The actual error we are getting is "Unable to contact CA on Management Server. Please make sure the CA daemon is running". Does anyone know what the name of the service is that runs this daemon? We have other customers running Checkpoint, have checked the services on these servers and can see nothing different....

I believe the problem is caused by the CA being tied to the hardware/MAC or something, however this is just a guess, does any one have any idea's, or maybe guidance if I am way off track?

Anyway, any ideas or advice that could prevent me from re-installing would be helpful.

Thanks :)