Any Security Analyst/Engineer using VISTA as main platform?

[hotice_]

I'm getting some new hardware here at the office and I'm just looking for some input to all of you who manage/work with Checkpoint Firewalls on a daily basis and are using VISTA...

Generally speaking, what's your take?
How robust are the various Dashboard/tools that a normal Security Engineer/analyst uses...

Any input would be greatly appreciated

[danzaka]

dont use vista ...


i have vista and i suffer !!
the smart dashboard crash all the time ..

if you open a group and dont press ok after 30 min the consol will crash ....


R55....

[Thorpuse]

In addition to this - I've found that the R55 and R60 GUIs will not work in Vista. I strongly doubt that CP is going to patch them for Vista compatibility. Stick with XP.

[danzaka]

i am working with both R61 and R55 on vista .

So it is working ...
but it is crashing for me at least a dozen times a day ...
so i just installed it on one of my servers and im using the managment from there .

[mcnallym]

I found that the regular Dashboard clients for R61 worked fine under Vista, however I found it impossible to login to the MultiDomain Gui for the Provider-1. At the moment I would strongly suggest to stick with XP for working with Check Point.

[hotice_]

well I took the plunge and am dual-booting right now


So far, every single version of SmartDashboard (55/60/61/62/65) and all of my tools are working 100% on my Vista Business installation

I'll see if I get any trouble in the upcoming weeks