Checkpoint R80.10 - Smart Update

It's a fine sunny morning and you are in a particularly good mood with the prospect of configuring few dozen rules on your newly upgraded Checkpoint R80.10 Management Server. You bring up your new Smart Console window:

You press the login button and bammm...

You go to the Checkpoint Licensing
center (I will cover Checkpoint licensing in a separate article, later), get
the CPLicenseFile.lic and download it.

Now begins a hunt for our beloved
Smart Update.. You don't find it!! That's where Google comes in "Smart
Update for checkpoint R80.10".. and this is where you land (overly
optimistic, if you know what I mean )

Here is how you fix the Licensing
issue:

1. Locate and double-click the
below file in the below directory:

C:\Program
Files\CheckPoint\SmartConsole\<Version>\PROGRAM\SmartDistributor

C:\Program Files (x86)\CheckPoint\SmartConsole\<Version>\PROGRAM\SmartDistributor For Example

2. You will find the legacy Smart Update (with R77.x changed to R80.10), as below:

3. Now follow the usual Checkpoint
Licensing steps. If you don't know please click here.

Hope your mood continues to stay good!!

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