Getting Started

In This Section: Starting SmartReporter Licenses

Starting SmartReporter

To start SmartReporter, perform one of the following actions:

1. Select Start > All Programs > Check Point SmartConsole > SmartReporter.
2. Double-click the SmartReporter desktop icon.
3. From SmartDashboard, select Window > SmartReporter, or press Ctl+Shift+R.

SmartReporter starts in the Reports view.

Initial Configuration of the SmartReporter Client

The final stage of getting started with SmartReporter is the initial configuration of the client. For SmartReporter, create consolidation sessions in SmartDashboard.

1. Open SmartDashboard > View > Products > SmartReporter Policy.
2. Modify the Out of the Box Policy's Consolidation Rules as needed.

Logs will now be created and sent to the SmartReporter database.

Creating a Consolidation Session for SmartReporter

The consolidation session reads logs from the Log Server and adds them to the SmartReporter database. If there is a single Domain Log Server connected to a Security Management Server, a consolidation session will automatically be created to read newly generated logs. If multiple Log Servers connect to one management server, users must manually define consolidation sessions for each Log Server.

When creating a Consolidation session you are determining the Log Server that should be used to extract information and the database table in which the consolidated information should be stored.

1. In SmartReporter, click on the Consolidation tab
2. Select the Sessions tab.
3. Click the Create New... button to create a new session.

   The New Consolidation Session - Select Domain Log Server window appears.

4. Select the Log Server from which logs will be collected and will be used to generate reports.
5. Click Next.

   The New Consolidation Session - Select Log Files and database for consolidation session window appears.

6. Choose whether to use the default source logs and default database tables or select specific source logs and specific database tables for consolidation.

If you select Select default log files and database, click Finish to complete the process. This option indicates that the source of the reports will be preselected logs and all the information will be stored in the default database table named CONNECTIONS. The preselected logs are the sequence of log files that are generated by Check Point products. The preselected logs session will begin at the beginning of last file in the sequence or at the point the sequence was stopped.

Multi-Domain Security Management

When you use SmartReporter with Multi-Domain Security Management, select Tools > Domain Activation and select the Domains that you work with.

Licenses

Licenses are installed on the SmartReporter server on a per Security Gateway basis.

When the license is installed on a per Security Gateway basis the user must select which Security Gateways for which reports are generated. With Multi-Domain Security Management, select the Domains instead of the Security Gateways.

If you have three Security Gateways and you buy three licenses you do not have to select the Security Gateways because the system knows that you only have three. If you have 4 Security Gateways and three licenses you have to choose the Security Gateways to which each license belongs.

Up to 5 UTM-1 Edge devices are considered a single Security Gateway. Beyond 5 each UTM-1 Edge Security Gateway is counted as an individual Security Gateway.

The SmartReporter server will now search for the SmartReporter license on the SmartReporter machine and if the license is not found it will search for the previous license on the Management Server.