Maximum Supported Items

This section provides the maximum supported numbers for various hardware and software items.

Management Server

Item

Maximum Number

Hard Limit

Comment

Network objects in all Domains

500,000

Yes

This applies to objects of these types - Security GatewayClosed Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to inspect traffic and enforce Security Policies for connected network resources., ClusterClosed Two or more Security Gateways that work together in a redundant configuration - High Availability, or Load Sharing., Network, Host, Group, Address Range, Dynamic ObjectClosed Special object type, whose IP address is not known in advance. The Security Gateway resolves the IP address of this object in real time., Wildcard Object, Security Zone, LSV Profile, Domain, Interoperable Device, VoIP Domain, Logical Server, OSE Device, Access Point Name.

Network objects in each Domain

100,000

No

 

Security Gateway objects in each Domain

300

and

500

No

To make sure the Management ServerClosed Check Point Single-Domain Security Management Server or a Multi-Domain Security Management Server. is responsive when you manage more than 300 Security Gateways, it is necessary to disable the three LSM Add-ons as described in sk135972 (LSMServerAddon, PAServerAddon, and PAHBServerAddon).

Objects in each Group object

12,000

Yes

 

Rules in each policy

28,000

Yes

To ensure optimal Security Gateway responsiveness, we recommend configuring a maximum of 20,000 rules in a policy.

While the Security Gateway can support more rules than 20,000 rules, the smaller the number of rules in the installed policy, the more responsive the Security Gateway is.

Changes in one session

100

No

To ensure optimal Management Server responsiveness, we recommend making 100 or fewer changes in each session (although the Management Server can support more than 500 changes at a time).

Interfaces in each Security Gateway

200

No

To ensure optimal SmartConsoleClosed Check Point GUI application used to manage a Check Point environment - configure Security Policies, configure devices, monitor products and events, install updates, and so on. responsiveness, we recommend configuring a maximum of 200 interfaces in SmartConsole.

If the Security Gateway object contains more interfaces, use the applicable Management API to configure interfaces. See the Check Point Management API Reference. To ensure optimal API responsiveness, we recommend configuring a maximum of 600 interfaces with API.

Layers in Access Control Policy

251

and

231

Yes

The maximum number of Policy Layers in an Access Control Policy is 251.

A Security Gateway has a limit of 4900 kernel tables.

Each Access Control Policy LayerClosed Layer (set of rules) in a Security Policy. creates 21 kernel tables on the Security Gateway.

Each Access Control Policy creates 40 global kernel tables on the Security Gateway (that apply to all Policy Layers).

Therefore, the additional calculation is:

(4900 tables - 40 tables) / 21 tables per Policy Layer = 231 Policy Layers.