Controlling and Monitoring Software Blades

The Home > Security Dashboard page shows you the active blades and lets you quickly navigate to the blade configuration page.

It also gives you:

• Access to the basic settings of the blades with the Settings button (cogwheel icon) and lets you activate the blades.

• Access to statistics for each blade (graph icon)

• Alerts you if there are blades that are missing licenses, service blades which are not up-to-date, and active blades which require additional configuration (for example, site-to-site VPN where the user did not configure any sites). When applicable, there is a triangle in the upper right hand corner of the specified blade.

The software blades are shown in these groups on this page based on where they are configured in the WebUI:

• Access Policy - Contains the Firewall, Application & URL Filtering Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that allows granular control over which web sites can be accessed by a given group of users, computers or networks. Acronym: URLF., User Awareness A Check Point software blade designed to associate users to IP addresses for logging and control purposes., and QoS blades.

• Threat Prevention - Contains the Intrusion Prevention (IPS), Anti-Virus, Anti-Bot, Threat Emulation, and Anti-Spam blades.

• VPN - Contains the Remote Access and Site to Site VPN An encrypted tunnel between two or more Security Gateways. Synonym: Site-to-Site VPN. Contractions: S2S VPN, S-to-S VPN. blades. It also contains certificate options.

You can click the tab name link or Software Blade link to access the tab for further configuration.

To enable or disable a Software Blade:

1. Slide the lever of the specified blade to the necessary ON or OFF position.

2. When you turn off the Firewall blade, click Yes in the confirmation message.

Note - Software Blades that are managed by Cloud Services show a lock icon. You cannot toggle between on and off states. If you change other policy settings, the change is temporary. Any changes made locally are overridden in the next synchronization between the gateway and Cloud Services.

To see or edit setting information:

1. Click the cogwheel icon next to the On/Off lever.

   The blade settings window opens.

2. View the details or select options to change current settings.

3. Click Apply

To view statistics:

1. Click the bar graph icon.

   The blade statistics window opens.

2. If the blade is turned on:

   • View the graph and details.

   • To go to other blade statistics, click the arrows in the header.

3. If the blade is turned off:

   • Click View demo to see an example of the statistics shown

   • Click the X icon to close the demo.

To view an alert:

1. Hover over the alert triangle.

2. Click the applicable link.