Backward Compatibility

You can manage Endpoint components both through Harmony Endpoint and SmartEndpoint A Check Point GUI application which connects to the Endpoint Security Management Server, to manage your Endpoint Security environment - to deploy, monitor and configure Endpoint Security clients and policies. management console (see Managing Endpoint Components in SmartEndpoint Management Console). Harmony Endpoint does not support all of the SmartEndpoint functionalities. Therefore, when you manage Endpoint components both through Harmony Endpoint and SmartEndpoint, conflicts can arise. When you do an action in SmartEndpoint that is not supported by Harmony Endpoint, the policy display view in Harmony Endpoint changes to the policy display view in SmartEndpoint (backward compatible mode).

For example, this is an example of backward compatibility display for the Threat Prevention policy:

The display view changes back from the backward compatible mode to the regular Harmony Endpoint view only when the policy enables it.