Checkpoint R80.10 management upgrade

When you decide to upgrade your R77.30 Checkpoint management to R80.10 please keep in mind a number of points ( also reported in sk114739).

The first step of the upgrade process will run the Pre-Upgrade verification tool ( that you could also run by downloading the utilities from CP website).

• One typical error, if you are not from the US, is to have non-Unicode chars in multiple files. In R80 you had to fix all these issues. Now with R80.10 all you need to do is create a file $FWDIRconf/db_encoding.txt with your encoding ( i.e. WINDOWS-1252) and no error message should appear

If you want to know where non-UNICODE chars are you can run this command

grep --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" file 

• Next you could have modified files under $FWDIR/lib such as implied_rules.def or crypt.def. These files will be replaced when upgrading.

Thus you need to make a backup of these files and reapply changes after upgrade is completed.