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fw ctl pstat Command Requires Admin Rights

Known Affected platforms: All

Result: Without this command collected no memory utilization will be present

ARP table contains only master VSYS 0 entries

Known Affected Software Versions: R80.30 and R80.40

Result: Command show arp dynamic all on VSx always (by mistake) shows ARP only for the master VSYS 0 regardless of active VSYS. It is a confirmed bug on the Check Point firewalls.

Discovery of Security Policies

  • Dynamic objects and negated services are not supported
  • Settings → Discovery & Snapshots → Discovery Settings → Vendors API in the IP Fabric GUI: In case that base URL points to a multi-domain server address, domains must be specified

Identity Awareness support

Starting with version 6.5, IP Fabric supports collecting data from the pdpd daemon. As the pdp command isn’t by default available from CLISH, an extended command has to be defined first (on appliances where PDP daemon is running).

The extended command can be defined from CLISH, but the path depends on the OS version currently installed. For example, if the OS version is R80.40, the command would be:

> add command ipf_pdp path /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/bin/pdp description "PDP for IP Fabric"
> save config

Alternatively, you can define the extended command from the expert mode by using the environment variable $FWDIR. The parameter -s saves the configuration:

# clish -s -c "add command ipf_pdp path $FWDIR/bin/pdp description \"PDP for IP Fabric\""

Don’t forget to update the related role and add the ipf_pdp extended command to it if needed. See the official Check Point documentation.

IP Fabric uses the ipf_pdp monitor all command to collect information about active users. Log in to the Check Point Gaia appliance with the credentials used by IP Fabric discovery and run the command to verify the configuration.

Required Permissions for Successful Discovery Over CLI

To successfully discover a Check Point Gateway, a correct role must be assigned to a user. IPF requires role features set as read-only, except of “Virtual-System” where read-write is needed (only if VSX firewalls are in your network, otherwise read-only is enough).

How To Setup a Role From Web GUI

  1. Open Check Point Gaia web interface

  2. Navigate to User Management -> Roles in the left menu

  3. Click Add, fill in the name. In the Features tab select all items and mark them as Read-Only. These permissions from the Extended Commands tab are needed (only if Gaia acts as a management server): fwm and ipf_pdp.

  4. If you have VSX firewall in your network, you must set Virtual-System feature to Read-Write (we call set virtual-system \<ID> to switch to proper virtual system). This allows IPF just to change context and can’t be used for anything else.

  5. Assign the role to the user used for IPF discovery

Info

Not all the features are needed for IPF. But as we will add support for new features, it can change. List of currently required features for minimal working setup (IPF 4.0, Gaia R81):

Advanced VRRP, ARP, BGP, Cluster, Display Configuration, Domain Name, Host Name, Management Interface, Netflow Export, Network Interfaces, Network Management, NTP, OSPF, Route, Routing Monitor, SNMP, System Configuration, Virtual-System, VRRP, VSX.