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The component of Management that is used for indexing is SOLR1. SOLR is an open source enterprise search platform that provides indexing and searching capabilities for various types of data2. Check Point uses SOLR to index logs, objects, policies, and other data that are stored in the Security Management Server or the Multi-Domain Security Management Server3. SOLR enables fast and efficient searches in SmartConsole, SmartLog, SmartView, and other applications3. SOLR also supports advanced features such as full-text search, faceted search, highlighting, spell checking, and geospatial search2. References: Check Point R81.20 Known Limitations - Check Point Software, SOLR - The Enterprise Search Platform, Check Point R81.20 Logging and Monitoring Administration Guide - Check Point Software

 One of the requirements for a successful upgrade using the Advanced Upgrade with Database Migration is that the size of the /var/log folder of the target machine must be at least 25% of the size of the /var/log directory on the source machine. This is to ensure that there is enough space to copy the log files from the source machine to the target machine during the upgrade process. References: Advanced Upgrade with Database Migration

 The correct syntax for adding an access-rule via R80 API is to use the add access-rule command with the layer, position, name, and service parameters. The layer parameter specifies the name of the access control policy layer where the rule will be added. The position parameter specifies the ordinal number in which to place the rule in the rulebase. The name parameter specifies the name of the rule. The service parameter specifies one or more services that match this rule. References: [Check Point Security Expert R81 API Reference Guide], page 18.

You can establish a VPN before the user login to the Endpoint Client by enabling Machine Authentication in the Gateway object of the Smart Console1. Machine Authentication is a feature that allows you to authenticate with a machine certificate and establish a VPN tunnel before the Windows Logon2. This feature provides the following benefits2:

• It enhances the security of the VPN connection by verifying the identity of the machine before allowing access to the network.
• It simplifies the user experience by eliminating the need to enter credentials twice (once for the VPN and once for the Windows Logon).
• It enables seamless connectivity to the network resources and domain services, such as Group Policy, login scripts, and mapped drives. Machine Authentication is supported on Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows with E80.71 and higher versions2. It requires a hotfix on top of R77.30 jumbo 286 on the Security Gateway2. To configure Machine Authentication, you need to do the following steps2:
• Generate and distribute machine certificates to the Endpoint machines using a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).
• Enable Machine Authentication in the Gateway object of the Smart Console and select the CA that issued the machine certificates.
• Install policy on the Security Gateway and reboot it.
• Enable Machine Authentication in the Endpoint Security Client and select the machine certificate to use.