Connecting On-Premises Management Servers and Security Gateways to the Infinity Portal

Run services that are managed in the Infinity Portal on your Management Server and Security Gateways.

To see the full list of services, go to SmartConsole 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. > Infinity Services view.

For some services for the Management Server, you must enable Configuration Sharing and Log Sharing. See the documentation for the specific service in the Infinity Portal Administration Guide.
See a unified log view of all your Check Point products, in the cloud and on-premises.

This way, you can search for logs and events from all Check Point products in the same place.
Use new administrator capabilities on the on-premises Management Server.

For example, you can run management APIs on the on-premises Management Server through the Infinity Portal securely from anywhere in the world.

Prerequisites

You must have a valid license for each Infinity Portal application or service that you use.

Source	Destination	Services	Action
Any	Check Point Services	http	Allow

For non-Check Point gateways, allow access to the domains listed in Scenario 3 of sk179105.
You must have the Manage integration with Infinity Services option selected on your permission profile. To have this option selected:
1. Go to Manage & Settings > Permissions & Administrators > Permission Profiles
2. Open the relevant Permission Profile.
3. Go to Management, and select Manage integration with Infinity Services.

In SmartConsole, go to the Infinity Services view.

Click Get Started.

The Instructions window opens.
If you do not already have an account in the Infinity Portal, click Create Account. For information about how to open an Infinity Portal account, see Getting Started with the Infinity Portal in the Infinity Portal Administration Guide.
In Connect to the Infinity Portal and get a token, click Get Token to retrieve a token from the Infinity Portal to create trust between your Quantum Management Server and your Infinity Portal account.

If you have more than one account, the Select Account window in the Infinity Portal opens.

Select the applicable account from the drop-down list and click Next.

Note - Each Management Server can connect to one account only.

The Connect my Quantum Management to Infinity page opens.

Select the checkbox that indicates that you agree to share your Management Server data with the Infinity Portal, and click Next.

The Copy This to SmartConsole page opens.
Copy the token and paste it in the Instructions window in SmartConsole.

The Management Server connects to the Infinity Portal.
Some services require a running agent on the Security Gateways. You can configure automatic onboarding of Security Gateways when connecting the Management Server to the cloud. In Connection timing for Security Gateways, select one of these options:
- Immediately (the default option) - All supported Security Gateways are connected to the Infinity Portal immediately when the Security Management Server Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to manage the objects and policies in a Check Point environment within a single management Domain. Synonym: Single-Domain Security Management Server. / Domain Management Server is connected to the Infinity Portal.
- After policy installation - All supported Security Gateways are connected to Infinity Portal only after the Security Management Server / Domain Management Server is connected to Infinity Portal and you install the Access Control policy.
Click Connect.

In SmartConsole > Infinity Services view > go to Infinity Portal Settings (located at the bottom of the page) > Log Sharing.
Click Edit.

The Log Sharing window opens.
Select the products whose log information you want to share:
- All products
- Specific products - Select the applicable products from the drop-down list.
Change the Enable button to ON, and click OK.

The Management Server now synchronizes the log information with the Infinity Portal.

For an incoming log rate of less than 500 logs per second - at least 2 CPU cores and 16GB of RAM.
For an incoming log rate of more than 500 logs per second - at least 4 CPU cores and 16GB of RAM.

In SmartConsole > Infinity Services view, go to Gateways Connector at the bottom of the page.
Click Edit to change the configuration.

Select one of these two options:

Immediately (the default option) - All supported Security Gateways are connected to the Infinity Portal immediately when the Security Management Server / Domain Management Server is connected to the Infinity Portal.
After policy installation - All supported Security Gateways are connected to Infinity Portal only after the Security Management Server / Domain Management Server is connected to Infinity Portal and you install the Access Control policy.

For Troubleshooting issues, see sk181504.