6. Check Point Getting Started R80.20. Getting Started in SmartConsole

Welcome to the 6th lesson. Today we will finally work with the famous Check Point GUI. What most people love is Check Point, and some hate it. If you remember the last lesson, then there I said that the security settings can be managed either through SmartConsole or through a special API, which appeared only in version R80. In this lesson we will start working with the SmartConsole . Sorry, but that API topic is out of our course.

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I would like to note how much the R80 interface has changed compared to previous releases. Make it quite simple, because The difference is simply enormous. Here you see the interface R77.30:
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It is called by the way SmartDashboard, and not SmartConsole. And it is very similar even to the oldest releases, such as R65 and even younger. Those. The interface for managing security policies has hardly changed, either externally or logically, for many years. But everything changed dramatically with the advent of the R80 family.

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Visual difference on the face. The interface has become more modern, beautiful, but this is not the most important thing. In the R80, the console logic has changed dramatically. For example, it was very difficult for me to switch to a new console. However, after working with her, I realized that she was very personal) In my subjective opinion, working in the R80 console is much more convenient than in the R77.30. But, it is rather a matter of habit. Many still spit on the new interface.
I see no reason to talk about the console in the pictures, better let's look at it "live." Below you will find a video tutorial with a demonstration of the interface. For one thing, we connect the gateway to our server management.

Video lesson

The next lesson is already on Monday and first it will appear on our YouTube channel .