For New Check Point Customers

New Check Point customers can access the Check Point User Center to:

• Manage users and accounts
• Activate products
• Get support offers
• Open service requests
• Search the Technical Knowledge Base

Downloading R77

You can download the R77 software images from the R77 home page. There are different software images for each operating system.

To use a software image, download it and copy it to the media in one of these ways:

• Create a removable USB device (for installing SecurePlatform or Gaia).
• Burn it to a DVD.

USB Installation

You can install a Gaia appliance or open server using an ISO on a removable USB drive. To prepare a USB drive, see: sk65205.

For version R77.20 and higher, the ISOmorphic tool lets an administrator run an unattended installation. In an unattended installation (appliances only):

1. An experienced Check Point system administrator prepares the installation media (USB) with these pre-configured settings for specified network interface:
   • IP address
   • Network mask
   • Default gateway
2. Sends the USB drive to an inexperienced administrator who inserts the drive into the appliance and reboots it.

   The tool installs R77.20 (or higher) and configures the appliance with the predefined settings. The LCD indicates a successful installation and interfaces blink in round-robin fashion.

3. The experienced administrator then:
   • Connects to the Portal and runs the First Time Configuration Wizard, or
   • Opens a command line (SSH) connection to the appliance for further OS level configuration

Note: The ISOmorphic tool does not support unattended installation on open servers.

Check Point Cloud Services

Check Point products connect to Check Point cloud services to download and upload information.

Automatic Downloads

You can enable or disable Automatic Downloads in the Gaia First Time Configuration Wizard, on the Products page. We recommend that you enable Automatic Downloads, so that you can use these features:

• Blade Contracts are annual licenses for Software Blades and product features. If there is no of a valid Blade contract, the applicable blades and related features will work, but with some limitations.
• Data updates and Cloud Services are necessary for the full functionality of these Software Blades and features:

	IPS	Compliance
	Application & URL Filtering	AppWiki
	Threat Prevention (Anti-Bot, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam)	Threat Wiki
	Threat Emulation	Application Database
	HTTPS Inspection	URL database
	SmartEndpoint

• CPUSE lets you manage upgrades and installations with the Gaia WebUI. You must enable Automatic Downloads to use this feature.

The Automatic Downloads feature is applicable to the Security Management Server, Multi-Domain Server, log servers, and Security Gateways (R77 and higher).

If you disable these features in the First Time Configuration Wizard, you can re-enable it in Global Properties:

1. Open Global Properties > Security Management Access.
2. Select Automatically download Contracts and other important data.
3. Restart SmartDashboard.
4. Install the Policy

For more details and instructions, see sk94508.

Sending Data to Check Point

In the Gaia First Time Configuration Wizard, on the Summary page, you can enable or disable data uploads to Check Point. This feature is enabled by default. The Upgrades (CPUSE) action statistics require this feature.

In R77 and higher, this setting activates the Check Point User Center Synchronization tool. It updates your User Center account with information from your Security Gateways, mapping your SKUs to your actual deployment.

This setting of a Security Management Server applies to all its Security Gateways (running R77 and higher).

You can always change this setting in SmartDashboard:

1. Click Policy menu > Global Properties > Security Management Access.
2. Select Improve product experience by sending data to Check Point.
3. Click OK.
4. Restart SmartDashboard.
5. Install the Network Security policy.

To learn more, see sk94509.

Note - In some cases, the download process sends a minimal amount of required data about your Check Point installation to the Support Center.

Compatibility Tables

If the existing Check Point implementation contains products that are not supported by R77, the installation process terminates. For a list of compatible products by platform, see the R77 Release Notes.