Your current stand-alone VPN-1 NG with Application Intelligence (AI) R55 installation is running on SecurePlatform. You plan to implement VPN-1 NGX in a distributed environment, where the existing machine will be the VPN-1 Pro Gateway. An additional machine will serve as the SmartCenter Server. The new machine runs on a Windows Server 2003. You need to upgrade the NG with AI R55 SmartCenter Server configuration to VPN-1 NGX.
How do you upgrade to VPN-1 NGX?
A.
Insert the NGX CD in the existing NG with AI R55 SecurePlatform machine, and answer yes to backup the configuration. Copy the backup file to the Windows Server 2003. Continue the upgrade process. Reboot after upgrade is finished. After SecurePlatform NGX reboots, run sysconfig, select VPN-1 Pro Gateway, and finish the sysconfig process. Reboot again. Use the NGX CD to install the primary SmartCenter on the Windows Server 2003. Import the backup file.
B.
Run the backup command in the existing SecurePlatform machine, to create a backup file. Copy the file to the Windows Server 2003. Uninstall all Check Point products on SecurePlatform by running rpm CPsuite-R55 command. Reboot. Install new VPN-1 NGX on the existing SecurePlatform machine. Run sysconfig, select VPN-1 Pro Gateway, and reboot. Use VPN-1 NGX CD to install primary SmartCenter Server on the Windows Server 2003. Import the backup file.
C.
Copy the $FWDIRconf and $FWDIRlib files from the existing SecurePlatform machine. Create a tar.gz
file, and copy it to the Windows Server 2003. Use VPN-1 NGX CD on the existing SecurePlatform machine to do a new installation. Reboot. Run sysconfig and select VPN-1 Pro Gateway. Reboot. Use the NGX CD to install the primary SmartCenter Server on the Windows Server 2003. On the Windows Server 2003, run upgrade_import command to import $FWDIRconf and $FWDIRlib from the SecurePlatform machine.
D.
Run backup command on the existing SecurePlatform machine to create a backup file. Copy the file to the Windows Server 2003. Uninstall the primary SmartCenter Server package from NG with AI R55 SecurePlatform using sysconfig. Reboot. Install the NGX primary SmartCenter Server and import the backup file. Open the NGX SmartUpdate, and select “upgrade all packages” on the NG with AI R55 Security Gateway.