List of All Resolved Issues and New Features in R80.40 SmartConsole

UPDATE: In the Top Security Rules tab, under the Device & License Information view, the column "Name" is now called "Rule number".

When adding a route using vsx_provisioning_tool and the "interface_name" option, this route cannot be removed.

• Requires R80.40 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 211.

In the User view, the creation/expiration date format is inconsistent.

In the Traffic tab, under the Device License Information view, the "Protocol" column shows the timer (the same as the "Duration" column) instead of the Service/Protocol.

An incorrect timestamp may be shown for logs in a predefined time filter.

After deleting or pasting objects in a field of a rule, pressing an arrow key may not change the selected object.

In rare scenarios, SmartConsole may close when opening a log in the Logs view.

In rare scenarios, SmartConsole may unexpectedly close when creating or editing an OSE Device object.

UPDATE: It is no longer possible to copy-paste/drag-drop network groups in the "Installed On" column in the NAT policy view.

Editing settings in the Inspection Settings view is greyed out.

In some scenarios, when adding a new NAT rule, the selected field of the rule may appear as duplicated.

In the Logs & Monitor view, querying logs by the "File" type may return no results, although there are matches.

UPDATE: The "Approve Changes" window in Extension modifications is now adjustable and can be resized.

Under TP Profile > Threat Emulation > General > Process Specific file types > Configure, when using the search, it returns "0" although the requested word found.

In legacy SmartDashboard, when navigating to Data Loss Prevention > My Organization > Exclusions > Add, the drop-down list pops up. If the Management Domain contains 5000 or more objects, GUI freezes for several minutes.

SmartConsole may unexpectedly close when pasting an extremely long search query in the Logs view.

UPDATE:

• In the VSX Cluster Wizard, "Check Point SecurePlatform (ClusterXL)" is renamed to "Check Point Gaia (ClusterXL)".

• Removed the platforms which are not supported platforms in this version: "Crossbeam Systems" and "Check Point IPSO VRRP".

Updated VSX Creation wizard in SmartConsole.

When trying to navigate from the "Where Used" window to an object which is used in a nested inline layer, the "Failed to go to the requested rule" error is shown.

When performing the "Where used" action on an object that is linked to a Layer and the Layer is not connected to any Policy, the Layer's details may be missing from the "Where used" window and it is not possible to navigate to it.

Rule Base exported to CSV includes the columns previously checked for displaying, although they are currently unchecked.

UPDATE: The time format in the "High Availability Status" screen has changed to "hh:mm:ss tt".

When navigating under VPN Meshed Community view > Tunnel Management > Set Permanent Tunnels > On all tunnels of specific Gateways, when there are more than four Gateways some are not visible.

The expiration date may not be shown in User objects.

When there are many network objects, opening the IPSec VPN tab in the Gateway object may take a long time.

UPDATE: The Log4net library is updated to version 2.0.12.

When Windows locale is set to a non-English language, creation\modification of new users fails with the "Illegal date format" error.

Removing all Gateways that belong to a Domain from a Global VPN Community may cause SmartConsole to unexpectedly close when trying to open the Global VPN Community object.

• Requires R81.10 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 158 (or higher).

NEW: Added Multi-Domain Server (MDS) level support for exporting data from the Gateways and Servers view into a CSV file.

UPDATE: In the SmartEvent System Status window, the "Total Memory" indication is changed to "Used Memory".

UPDATE: In Advanced view for Endpoint Applications, added the "Link Text" column for Mobile Native Applications.

In Log view, the link to create a "New Service Request" redirects to a page that no longer exists in Check Point Support Center.

In large environments, searching for specific devices in SmartProvisioning takes a long time.

In scenarios with more than 100 Gateway objects, some views may not show some Security Gateways or display some of them as duplicates.

In rare scenarios, SmartConsole unexpectedly closes when running a query in the Logs tab.

In the Shared Policies section, under the Security Policies view, it is possible to select different options for Geo Policy, even when the mouse cursor is hovering over their lines and is not located in the radio button/checkbox itself. Refer to sk175748.

In some scenarios, when changing the netmask of an interface in VSX, the netmask of the member network does not change.

SmartConsole may close unexpectedly when configuring Threat Emulation settings for a Small Office LSM Profile object.

NEW:Added support for CloudGuard Edge appliances.

• Requires R80.40 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 126 (or higher).

NEW: Added the Quantum Edge Hardware type to the Security Gateway drop-down hardware list in SmartConsole.

UPDATE: Removed "Upgrade management" and "Launch IP appliance" buttons from SmartUpdate.

In some scenarios, changing the hardware type of a Gateway with Identity sharing fails.

In some scenarios, the Domain Management Server hardware type shows incorrect information in SmartConsole.

Changes to the columns in the Global Exception view of the Threat Prevention Policy are not saved when changing to a different view. Refer to sk165833.

In some scenarios, SmartConsole closes unexpectedly when loading the Access Control policy.

• Requires R80.40 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 126 (or higher).

The tooltips in the "Threat Prevention" Profile configuration window on the "Advanced" page of "Threat Emulation" may disappear after a short time.

Opening Mail Transfer Agent from the Gateway editor may take up to a few minutes.

Some special characters may not be blocked when defining a password for client uninstall in SmartEndpoint.

Opening the Security Gateway editor from the VPN community editor in read-only mode may cause SmartConsole to close unexpectedly.

When the Identity Awareness blade is enabled on an LSM profile, the LSM policy verification may fail.

NEW: Added ability to download files from SmartConsole Extensions.

In some scenarios, the Policy installation history in the Access Tools view on a cluster member is not updated.

When opening the "Users by Gateways" view in SmartView Monitor and the list contains thousands of entities, it may take a long time to show all results, and in rare cases, no results are displayed.

When searching in the rulebase, the entire word is highlighted instead of the partial string that matches.

When a mismatch version message is shown on the SmartConsole login window, it is displayed with an "error" icon instead of "info".

In a rare scenario, SmartConsole may unexpectedly close after policy installation.

In some scenarios, the "Last Connected From" for Users and Computers tab of SmartEndpoint is not displayed correctly.

When using SmartConsole in Demo Mode, in some cases while opening a new Logs and Monitor tab, the "SmartView is not available, SmartView server certificate is invalid" error message is shown.

• Requires R80.40 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 114 (or higher).

NEW: Added the "Verify Access Policy" action to the Access Policy toolbar Actions menu.

In some scenarios, adding the '#' symbol in the "End-User Agreement Settings" form under Identity Awareness may cause the Threat-Prevention Policy installation to fail.

In some scenarios, the protection name for IPS static protections is not visible on the log card.

NEW: When the user connects with an incompatible client version to the server, he will automatically launch the correct SmartConsole version installed on his computer. Refer to sk171422.

In some scenarios, SmartConsole web extension does not load correctly in environments where proxy is defined.

When moving Endpoints from SmartEndpoint Reporting tab to a virtual group after scrolling down the list, not all endpoints are moved.

UPDATE: Removed the "Scan priority will be lower than other running processes" option from SmartEndpoint.

"N/A" is displayed instead of "Any" in the Protection drop-down menu under
Inspection Settings > Core Protections > Exception editor window.

In rare scenarios, legacy SmartDashboard may unexpectedly close upon loading.

NEW:

• Added support for 1570R, 1600 and 1800 SMB Appliances.
• Added support for Threat Emulation blade on LSM profile of R80.20 SMB gateways and clusters.
• Requires R80.40 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 91 (or higher).

UPDATE: Added ability to select 'Any' in the Service column when creating a custom firewall Best practice.

• Requires R80.40 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 91 (or higher).

In some scenarios, in the IPS Core Protections > Exceptions view, the default protection appears as (object id ; "Any") .

When there are many gateways and servers defined in a policy and the administrator needs to scroll up and down to see them all, the links in the "Recommended Updates" column ("GATEWAYS & SERVERS" view) may jump to another row.

In rare scenarios, SmartConsole unexpectedly closes when opening a log or navigating inside a log card to previous/next log in the results list.

In SmartConsole Demo Mode, some pages may display an "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" error message.

NEW: Added ability for administrators to view, add, and delete licenses directly from SmartConsole.

• Requires R80.40 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 87 (or higher).

UPDATE: Removed all exe files from data/util library and the old cpm_dir (Legacy demo).

In some scenarios, the "Choose Devices" page in the SmartProvisioning Wizard does not show any devices when the user chooses any type of device.

When scrolling or clicking on a rule, some inline layer rules may open unexpectedly.

SmartConsole may unexpectedly close when clicking the license information link under "Licenses" tab of a cluster object on a Multi-Domain Management.

In some scenarios, the "Content" column does not appear in the Access policy view even if the Content Awareness blade is on one of its inline-layers.

"Auto Refresh" removes the filter from SmartEndpoint Deployment Status Report after refresh. Refer to sk168232.

When the mouse hovers on the Custom Application Group, "Error:Loading failed" may appear.

In some scenarios, it may not be possible to select users for FDE Remote Help with a mouse click/enter in SmartEndpoint.

In some scenarios, an OPSEC Application editor may work slower than expected or freeze in environments with a very large number of network objects.

When connecting through SmartConsole for the first time, the fingerprint message is not suitable for Multi-Domain System. Refer to sk167980.

A new user registration key for certificate enrollment may fail to open if the expiry value for user certificates is set to 1 in Global Properties. Refer to sk163872.

It is not possible to view logs in Install Policy Presets view, if the selected policy name contains spaces or "slash" characters.

UPDATE: Do not use the Sticky Decision Function checkbox for ClusterXL Load Sharing. Use the ccl_force_sticky parameter instead. For more information, see sk162637.

When attempting to modify the "Default Time Frame" or "Custom time zone" options in the query settings of log view in Logs and Monitor tab, the list of values is presented in be background and the new value cannot be selected.

NEW: SmartConsole default login timeout was increased.

An incorrect netmask may be shown for Virtual System objects in the network group editor.

The SmartConsole utility's Reconnect Tool may show the "MSVCP140.dll is missing" message.

NEW: Added section in SmartConsole.exe.config that allows defining the per-server custom connection ports for FWM and CPM

In some scenarios, it is not possible to enable the Threat Emulation blade for a Security gateway.

In a rare scenario, SmartConsole may unexpectedly close after stopping the SmartConsole diagnostics service.

In a rare scenario, SmartConsole may unexpectedly close when closing a window of Revert to Revision, Central Deployment, Infinity Threat Prevention or a window hosting an extension (like Changes Report).

In some scenarios, the Menu option to view or edit cluster member object on Multi-Domain's gateways view does not show the correct data.

While in Multi-Session mode, SmartConsole may not display the "Recent Sessions" menu.