Introduction

With the introduction of the FireWall-1 NG product, Check Point has separated the new feature releases from the product fixes. With Feature Packs, Check Point is not simply providing bug fixes or service packs, as the company did with its older software. Feature Packs (FPs) bring new features such as the new log management interface in FP3. The NG FP is now the method by which Check Point will provide cumulative updates and new features to the product.

In NG FP3, Check Point has launched smart clients. We focus on the new features of this Security Management Architecture s smart clients and correlate the new client names to the Check Point clients that you have used in the past. Be sure to review this section well because there are some major differences between these new clients and the old. In the past, these user interfaces were called GUI clients. The three main clients were Policy Editor, Log Viewer, and System Status. For those sites that deployed SecuRemote and/or SecureClient, the SecureClient Packaging Utility was also a GUI client.

As shown in Table 2.1, now there is the SmartDashboard, SmartView Status, SmartView Tracker, SmartView Monitor, and User Monitor. The SmartDashboard is used to modify security policy, just as did the Policy Editor of previous versions. SmartView Tracker is the new Log Viewer, and SmartView Status is the new System Status.