Getting Started

In This Section: Minimum Disk Space Disk Partitions in a Gaia Clean Installation Upgrading to R80 USB Installation

Before you install or upgrade to R80:

1. Read the R80 Release Notes.
2. Create a backup file of the current system settings from the Gaia WebUI.

   For Multi-Domain Server run mds_backup

Minimum Disk Space

The Security Management Server or Log Server with log indexing enabled, creates and uses index files for fast access to log file content. Index files are located by default at $RTDIR/log_indexes.

To make sure that there is always sufficient disk space on the server, the server that stores the log index deletes the oldest index entries when the available disk space is less than a specified minimum. The default minimum value is 5000 MB, or 15% of the available disk space.

To change the minimum available disk space for Logs and indexes:

1. In SmartConsole, edit the Security Management Server or Log Server or SmartEvent network object.
2. Open Logs > Storage.
3. Select When disk space is below <number> Mbytes, start deleting old log files.
4. Change the disk space value.

   Note - In a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, the disk space for logs and indexes is controlled by the Multi-Domain Server, and applies to all Domain Servers. Configure the disk space on the Multi-Domain Server object.

Disk Partitions in a Gaia Clean Installation

On Check Point appliances, the size of the disk partitions is predefined. On Smart-1 50/150/3050/3150 appliances, you can modify the default disk partitions in the first 20 seconds of an installation. The non-interactive installation then continues.

When installing Gaia on an open server, these partitions have default sizes:

• System-swap
• System-root
• Logs
• Backup and upgrade

You can change the System-root and the Logs partition sizes. The storage size assigned for backup and upgrade is updated accordingly.

To see the size of the system-root and log partitions on an installed system, enter expert mode and run the df -h command.

Most of the remaining space on the disk is reserved for backup images and upgrade. To see the disk space assigned for backup images, connect to the Gaia WebUI and go to the Maintenance > Image Management page. On an Open Server, the available space shown in the Image Management page is less than the space you defined when installing Gaia. The difference between the two amounts is the space reserved for upgrades. The amount of reserved space equals the size of the system-root partition.

Note - The minimum recommended space in /var/log to support upgrade is 4 GB.

Upgrading to R80

The R80 Upgrade Verification Service helps you upgrade successfully to R80.

We evaluate your environment and send you an email that shows if you are ready to upgrade, or what you must do first. For more details, see sk110267.

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 WebUI 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.