Viewing System Information

The Home > System page shows an overview of the Check Point Appliance.

The Check Point Appliance requires only minimal user input of basic configuration elements, such as IP addresses, routing information, and blade configuration. The initial configuration of the Check Point 1550 Appliance can be done through a First Time Configuration Wizard. When initial configuration is completed, every entry that uses http://my.firewall shows the WebUI Home > System page.

• System Information - Shows the appliance model, installed software version, name, MAC address, system date and time (with the GMT setting), and system uptime.

• Notifications - Shows events and their type/severity.

• Network - Shows Internet information and wireless network/radio status.

  If applicable, click the links to configure Internet and Wireless options.

• Statistics - Shows live data graphs of packet rate and throughput.

To monitor your device's internet connection from your mobile device, you must first configure this on the WebUI Home > System page.

To configure connection monitoring:

1. In the WebUI, go to Home > System > Internet connections and click Edit.

   The Edit Internet Connection window opens.

2. In the Connection Monitoring tab, check or clear:

   • Automatically detect loss of connectivity to the default gateway. This pings the default gateway to detect if connectivity is lost.

   • Monitor connection state by sending probe packets to one or more servers on the Internet. This uses other methods and servers to detect connectivity loss.

3. If you selected Monitor connection state, select the connection probing method:

   • Probe DNS servers

   • Ping addresses

4. If you selected Ping addresses, enter the IP address(es).

5. Select the settings for:

   • Recovery time (seconds)

   • Max latency allowed (milliseconds)

   • Probing frequency for active connections (seconds)

6. Click Apply