Check Point Cloud Services

In This Section:

Automatic Downloads

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

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 valid Blade contract, the applicable blades and related features will work, but with some limitations.
CPUSE lets you manage upgrades and installations on Gaia OS. See sk92449.
Data updates and Cloud Services are necessary for the full functionality of these Software Blades and features:
- Application & URL Filtering
- Threat Prevention (Anti-Bot, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, IPS, Threat Emulation)
- HTTPS Inspection
- URL Filtering database
- Application Database
- Compliance
- SmartEndpoint
- AppWiki
- ThreatWiki

The Automatic Downloads feature is applicable to the Security Management Servers, Multi-Domain Servers, Log Servers, and Security Gateways.

If you disabled Automatic Downloads in the Gaia First Time Configuration Wizard, you can enable it again in SmartConsole Global properties:

Step	Description
1	In the top left corner, click Menu > Global properties > Security Management Access.
2	Select Automatically download Contracts and other important data.
3	Click OK.
4	Close the SmartConsole.
5	Connect with SmartConsole to your Management Server.
6	Install the Access Control Policy.

To learn more, 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 CPUSE statistics require this feature.

In R77 and above, 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 managed Security Gateways (running R77 and above).

You can always change this setting in SmartConsole:

Step	Description
1	In the top left corner, click Menu > Global properties > Security Management Access.
2	Select or clear Improve product experience by sending data to Check Point.
3	Click OK.
4	Close the SmartConsole.
5	Connect with SmartConsole to your Management Server.
6	Install the Access Control 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 Check Point User Center.