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As CheckPoint are pulling support for NGX R65, we're doing a load of upgrades from R65 to at least R70. Usually, I'm going beyond this to R71 or R75 depending on how the customer feels about it. This article describes the usual process that I go through.

At the moment, CheckPoint are busily withdrawing support for R65. This means we're doing a load of upgrade work from R65 to later versions such as R71 and R75. Quite often, the best way forward would be to perform a clean installation of the SecurePlatform (SPLAT) operating system. However, it's typical that there will be a bunch of configuration that you'd want to take with you. One of the most important of these configuration items are the routes. This article describes how to export the routes and reimport them safely onto a newly installed SPLAT box.

To enable SNMP polling of a CheckPoint SecurePlatform appliance from a network management tool, such as NetIQ or SolarWinds, do the following...

It is prescient that I was about to post the following, another one of my old blog entries, when I received a Skype message from a client who has lost the password to a Nokia. The password reset procedure requires local console access, so is secured by the usual physical access protections that should be applied to all comms rooms.

Remember that the following was originally written in 1999 and has been updated only a little bit for this blog. How many other IT manufacturers can reference consistency over ten years? Anyway...