Smart Centre Licensing

[Testing-123]

Hi All,

Does anyone have a reference to, or can verify that, it is against Check Point EULA to use a SmartCenter to manage firewalls owned by different customers?

We are planning to manage customer firewalls on their behalf from our existing SmartCenter.

Regards
Testing-123

[chillyjim]

Neither SmartCenter, SiteManager-1 nor Enterprise-1 are allowed to manage other companies gateways. Only Provider-1 allows this.

[Testing-123]

Hi chillyjim,

Thank you for the clarification. Where have you read this? If you can't recall, not to worry. Just curious to read this aspects/wording of the EULA :-)

Regards
Testing-123

[mcnallym]

I wouldn't manage multiple customers with a single SMARTCenter as you then only have a single global objects database, and global properties. Quite a few of our managed customers require different global properties which is impossible with a single SMARTCenter.

With Provider-1 then each Customer have there own CMA which gives them unique objects. It also means that you get individual logging on the MLM as well.

WIth a single SMARTCenter then you are going just have one single Log entry for all of your customers.

Whilst it may be cheaper, it really is a false economy, as you are going to spend the time having to seperate out so much manually.

[chillyjim]

Originally Posted by Testing-123

Hi chillyjim,

Thank you for the clarification. Where have you read this? If you can't recall, not to worry. Just curious to read this aspects/wording of the EULA :-)

Regards
Testing-123

Internal licensing guide, sorry. It should be in the EULA, but I haven't read it in detail in a long time. Your reseller should be able to get you a copy of the reseller licensing guide.