Upgrading r55 to r60 to a new server

[danzel]

Guys,

newbie here.

Can anyone tell me the steps how to upgrade my current firewall from r55 to r60 into a new xeon box. from rh7 to rhel 3.

Do i need the updates in rhel 3? or just plain 3.0 and i wont upgrade to the latest patch?

Thanks and God bless!

[northlandboy]

Read the R60 Upgrade guide (on the CD, or you can download it from checkpoint.com). This covers these sorts of scenarios.

Also, you might like to consider using SecurePlatform rather than RHEL - it makes life a bit easier for you.

[danzel]

can you tell me some big diff between the splat and rhel. so sorry newbie here. and what is the diff between splat and splat pro? ill be moving also my smartcenter server from win2k to splat it is advisable? could i do atleast software raid on splat?

[northlandboy]

SecurePlatform is based on RedHat - I think R60 is based on RHEL 3.0.

The big advantage is that your system becomes more like an appliance - you have one CD to install the OS and Check Point. Install is very quick. The system is already locked down fairly tightly. You only need to apply the CP HFAs, you don't need to worry about patching the OS separately.

Backups now backup both CP and OS data, making restore very easy.

Read the SecurePlatform Guide for the differences between normal SPLAT and SPLAT Pro. Basically it's dynamic routing and RADIUS auth for admins.

Yes moving from Win2K is advisable. Assuming you have reasonably standard hardware (e.g. DL380), it will make your life much easier, as you won't have the Windows patching nightmare. Use the upgrade_export/upgrade_import tools, and you can do this easily. Search this forum and other mailing lists for examples on this. Read the Upgrade guide.

[danzel]

when i configured my hardware to use sata raid 1 splat cant see my raid1 config :(