How To Fail over Traffic Between Checkpoint Cluster Firewalls:

Raghavendra Seshumurthy

Below steps explain how to perform a manual failover in Check Point cluster while maintaining full connectivity with each cluster member, keeping interference with cluster’s operations at a minimum.

1. Command to failover traffic from Active Checkpoint Firewall to Standby Firewall.

[Expert@ActiveFirewall]# clusterXL_admin down

2. Command to put it back traffic on active is

[Expert@ActiveFirewall]# clusterXL_admin up

 

 

Published by Raghavendra Seshumurthy

My name is Raghavendra Seshumurthy. Presently I am working as a technolgy manager for Microland Organization. I have experience on security/cloud products: F5, Checkpoint, ASA, PA, AWS, Bluecoat, VPN, PITC, Zscaler, Azure, GCP, network, security, cloud. This blog is created just to share thoughts on new technologies and features in the network, security and cloud environment.

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