How to install CheckPoint 77.20-S Step By Step

Hi Dear visitors,

In this tutorial, you are going to learn and introduce all steps for installing Check Point 77.20 GAIA.

I am going to install it on Virtual Machine.

Here is the

Appliance checkpoint:

You are going to learn how to create some basic rules, set time, PpasswordNAT configuration as well.
Loaded the CHECKPOINT ISO and select on ” Install Gaia on this System”

Select language:

In this figure we are seeing the partitions configuration, the nicely is the checkpoint system knows to calculate the disk space as his best practices,

Here we need to set Password, it is not Dashboard password it for csconfig.

Select your network ports and continue with OK

Configure IP for management interface :192.168.1.150

Ok

Perform Reboot

and connect to the management by “https://192.168.1.150”

By the way, this is the CheckPoint CLI

Connect to the Gaia portal with username and password you set

And we’ll get the Gaia configuration Wizard.

Continue with Gaia R77.20 Configuration:

Please note that in this figure we have to specify the IP address we will connect to Smart Console

User interface required a license, I don’t have it so…

Set Name,DNS configuration:

Set Time,Date.

And in Installation type select “Security gateway or security management ”

Here we can set cluster.

Set UserPassword and for Security Management Administrator

Here we can set that only from specific Computer or IP we will be able to connect to Management console.

For this article, I am choosing in any IP.

Finish.

In order to apply setting we have click on YES

This is GAIA:

And on this occasion, I would like to download the Smart Dashboard to my computer.

Check Point Smart Console Installation:

There is not Ping yet.

Insert your credential:

And from here you can set rules, NAT configurations, application control (module) and etc…

Great, so far we implemented GAIA and Check Point configuration, now we need to apply some rule,

Remember there was no Ping? let’s create a rule which allow PING

Allow all,any,any,any traffic,any,accept,log

In check, once we created kind of rule we need to click “Install Policy” in order to apply the rule:

I will change is to DROP just to demonstrate you the PING rule