Configuring a Unique IP Address for Each Standby Chassis (UIPC)

In a Dual Chassis deployment:

• A heavy load on the Active Chassis can prevent you from creating a network connection to the SMO See "SMO". and working with management tasks.

• It can be necessary to have a direct access to the Standby Chassis to troubleshoot a problem, such as an SGM in the DOWN state.

  You cannot use the SMO to connect to the Standby Chassis.

You can assign a unique IP address to each Standby Chassis to help resolve these issues.

This adds an extra alias IP alias addres to the management interfaces on all SGMs.

When there is a high load on the SMO, connect to the Standby Chassis using the unique IP address you assigned to the Standby Chassis.

The SGMs on the Standby Chassis are always in the UP state and available to run Gaia gClish The name of the global command line shell in Check Point Gaia operating system for Security Gateway Modules. Commands you run in this shell apply to all Security Gateway Module in the Security Group. commands.

Notes: The UIPC feature is disabled by default. Only one SGM "owns" the UIPC task. If the Standby Chassis is not managed through a management port, you can add the unique IP address to one of the data ports. The connection to the unique IP address reaches a specific SGM based on the distribution configuration.