Identity Collector

Check Point Identity CollectorClosed Check Point dedicated client agent installed on Windows Servers in your network. Identity Collector collects information about identities and their associated IP addresses, and sends it to the Check Point Security Gateways for identity enforcement. You can download the Identity Collector package from Support Center. is a dedicated client agent installed on Windows Servers in your network. Identity Collector collects information about identities and their associated IP addresses, and sends it to the Check Point Security GatewayClosed Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to inspect traffic and enforce Security Policies for connected network resources. for identity enforcement

The Identity Collector can connect with more than one Identity Source at a time. The Identity Sources are organized in Query Pools.

A Query Pool is an object, which contains a number of Identity Sources. Each Query Pool is assigned to one Identity AwarenessClosed Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that enforces network access and audits data based on network location, the identity of the user, and the identity of the computer. Acronym: IDA. Gateway. The Identity Collector collects information from the Identity Sources in the Query Pools and sends the information to the Identity Awareness Gateways.

Example:

An environment has two domains: Asia.com and Euro.com.

The administrator wants the Asia Identity Awareness Gateway to get the events from all the 4 Active Directory Domain Controllers in the Asia.com domain.

The administrator in addition wants the Europe Identity Awareness Gateway 1 and Europe Identity Awareness Gateway 2 to get the events from all the 6 Active Directory Domain Controllers in the Euro.com domain.

The administrator, therefore, creates 2 Query Pools:

  • One, which contains all the Active Directory Domain Controllers in the Asia.com domain.

  • One, which contains all the Active Directory Domain Controllers in the Euro.com domain.

The administrator configures:

  • The Asia Identity Awareness Gateway to get events from the Asia Query Pool.

  • The two Europe Identity Awareness Gateways to get events from the Europe Query Pool.

. For more information about Identity Collector, see the Identity Awareness Clients Administration Guide.