Dual Redundant BIOS

To ensure resilience in the event of a BIOS failure, appliances are equipped with dual redundant BIOS images.

If an appliance encounters a BIOS failure, it boots up from a recovery, read-only BIOS image that enables full functionality of the appliance.

These notifications are shown in the event of a BIOS failure:

• The appliance's Alert LED on the front panel blinks red.

• The Gaia Portal > Maintenance > Hardware Health page shows that the BIOS sensor is Invalid and its status is Off.

  Example (from a QLS800 appliance):

  

• An SNMP trap message is sent (if the biosFailure trap was configured in the Gaia Portal or Gaia Clish).

  Example:

  

To recover from a BIOS failure, see sk108517 or contact Check Point Support.

The appliance is fully functional until the BIOS recovery is completed.

Note that it can take a few minutes for it to boot in BIOS recovery mode.