fw commands

The fw commands are used for working with various aspects of the firewall. All fwcommands are executed on the Check Point Security Gateway. For more about the fwcommands, see the Command Line Interface (CLI) Reference Guide.

fw commands can be found by typing fw [TAB] at a command line. For some of the CLI commands, you can enter the -h parameter to display all the relevant arguments and parameters. These commands are:

fw command	Explanation
`fw accel [-h]`	Turn acceleration on/off
`fw activation [-h]`	Activate license
`fw avload [-h]`	Load Anti-Virussignatures to kernel
`fw ctl [args]`	Control kernel
`fw debug [-h]`	Turn debug output on or off
`fw fetch`	Fetch last policy
`fw fetchdefault [-h]`	Fetch default policy
`fw fetchlocal [-h]`	Fetch local policy
`fw monitor [-h]`	Monitor Check Point Appliance traffic
`fw pull_cert`	Pull certificate from internal CA
`fw sfwd`	fw daemon
`fw sic_init [-h]`	Initialize SIC
`fw sic_reset [-h]`	Reset SIC
`fw sic_test`	Test SIC with management
`fw stat [-h]`	Display policy installation status of the gateway. (Command is provided for backward compatibility.)
`fw tab [-h]`	Display kernel-table content
`fw unloadlocal`	Unload local policy
`fw ver [-k]`	Display version