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Supported Platforms and Requirements
NGX R61

NGX
 

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Check Point products and platforms supported by the NGX R61 release

Product Solaris Microsoft Windows RHEL 3.0 Check Point Nokia
UltraSPARC
8, 9, & 10 		Server 2003 (SP1) 2000 Advanced Server (SP1-4) 2000
Server
(SP1-4)		 2000 Professional (SP1-4) XP Home & Professional kernel 2.4.21 Secure Platform IPSO
3.9, 4.0 & 4.1
SmartCenter Server X X X X     X X X1 
Provider-1/ SiteManager-1 Server (MDS) X           X X  
Integrity Advanced Server   X X X     X X  
Eventia Reporter Server X X X X     X X X2 
SmartView Monitor Server X X X X     X X X
UserAuthority Server X X X X X X X X X3 
SSL Network Extender Server X X X X     X X X
VPN-1 Power/ UTM X X X X     X X11  X
VPN-1 Power VSX               X X
SmartConsole Applications X4  X X X X X      
Provider-1/ SiteManager-1 MDG X X X X X X      
SmartPortal X X X X     X X  
SmartLSM - Enabled Management X X X X     X X X
SmartLSM - Enabled ROBO Gateways   X X X     X X X
SmartLSM - Enabled CO Gateways X X X X     X X X
ClusterXL X X5  X X     X X X6 
VPN-1 Accelerator Driver II X7                 
VPN-1 Accelerator Driver III X X X X     X X  
Performance Pack X             X X8 
Advanced Routing               X X9 
SecureXL Turbocard               X10   
 
OSE Supported Routers Nortel Versions: 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13, 14
Cisco OS Versions: 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, 12.x
 

Notes to products and platforms supported by the NGX R61 release

  1. UTM-1 Edge devices cannot be managed from a SmartCenter server running
    on a Nokia IPSO platform.
  2. On Nokia IPSO platforms, Eventia Reporter is only supported as a Management
    Add-on, and only on disk-based platforms.
  3. UserAuthority is not supported on Nokia flash-based platforms.
  4. The following SmartConsole clients are not supported on Solaris UltraSPARC
    platforms: SmartView Monitor, SmartLSM, Eventia Reporter Client and the
    SecureClient Packaging Tool.
  5. HA Legacy mode is not supported on Windows Server 2003.
  6. ClusterXL is supported only in third party mode with VRRP or IP Clustering.
  7. VPN-1 Accelerator Driver II is supported on Solaris 8 only.
  8. Nokia provides SecureXL as part of IPSO.
  9. Nokia provides Advanced Routing as part of IPSO.
  10. NGX-compatible Turbocard driver.
  11. Anti Virus is Supported
 

Check Point NGX R61 Clients Supported by Platform

  Microsoft Windows Mac
Server 2003 (SP1) 2000 Advanced Server (SP1-4) 2000 Server (SP1-4) 2000 Professional (SP1-4) XP Home and Professional Handheld PC 2000 & Pocket OS "X"
SecuRemote X X X X X    
SecureClient X X X X X X X
SSL Network Extender   X X   X    

Minimum Hardware Requirements for VPN-1 UTM/Power & SmartConsole

  VPN-1 Pro SmartCenter Server or Enforcement Module SmartConsole (Windows only)
Processor Intel Pentium II Intel Pentium II
CPU 300MHz or equivalent processor 300MHz or equivalent processor
Free Disk Space 300MB 100MB
Memory Windows: 256MB
Linux: 128MB (256MB recommended) 		256MB
CD-ROM Drive Yes Yes
Network Adapter One or more One or more
Video Adapter   Supports 800 x 600 resolution

Minimum Hardware Requirements for VPN-1 Power & SmartConsole

Processor Intel Pentium III
CPU 300+MHz or equivalent processor
Disk Space 4GB
Memory 256MB
CD-ROM Drive Yes (Bootable)
Network Adapter One or more supported network adaptors
Video Adapter Supports 1024 x 768 resolution

Check Point NGX R61 Clients Minimum Hardware Requirements

  SecuRemote / SecureClient Integrity Agent / Flex
Processor   Intel Pentium II 450Mhz or equivalent
Free Disk Space 40MB free disk space 30MB free disk space
Memory 128Mbytes RAM 256Mbytes RAM
Note: the minimum hardware requirements presented for SecureClient are true for Mac OS-X as well.

Hardware Requirements for Eventia Reporter on Windows & Linux

  Minimum Requirements Recommended for High Performance
Processor Intel Pentium IV Dual CPU
CPU 2.0 GHz 3.0 GHz
Disk Space Installation - 80MB, Database - 60GB (40GB for database, 20GB for database temporary directory) Installation - 80MB, Database - 100GB (60GB for database, 40GB for database temporary directory, two physical disks)
Memory 1GB 2GB
CD-ROM Drive Yes Yes

Minimum Hardware Requirements for Integrity Advanced Server in NGX R61

  Number of Users Admin Application Server
Processor Up to 20,000
More than 20,000		 Intel Pentium 4 2GHz or equivalent
Intel Dual Xeon 2GHz or equivalent
Free Disk Space 10GB free disk space
30GB free disk space		 10GB free disk space
20GB free disk space
Memory Up to 10,000
More than 10,000		 1GB RAM
2GB RAM
CD-ROM Drive -- Yes

Database Server

Users RAM Disk Space1
up to 500 1 GB 5 GB
up to 2000 1 GB 20 GB
up to 5,000 2 GB 500 GB
up to 20,000 3 GB 100 GB
up to 50,000 4 GB 200 GB
up to 150,000 6 GB 300 GB
  1. Embedded database should only be used to support up to 5000 users.
 

Bandwidth / Policy Download

  MB Per Hour MB Per Deployment
Users Bandwidth1 AskBandwidth2 LogUpload3 Policy Download4
up to 500 3.5 0.3 0.9 2.4
up to 1,000 7.1 0.6 1.9 4.8
up to 10,000 70 6.9 19 48
up to 100,000 708 69 195 486
up to 150,000 1262 104 293 729
  1. This is the base network utilization for traffic between Integrity Server and clients.
  2. Assumes one ask per hour.
  3. Assumes one logupload per day.
  4. Assumes one deployment for all users and policies of certain sizes.
 

Supported Gateways and Clients

Check Point
  • VPN-1 NGX 157 and later
  • FireWall-1 NG with Application Intelligence R55W and later
  • VPN-1 SecureClient with Application Intelligence R56 build 619 and later
  • Interspect Gateway v. 2.0 and later
  • Safe@Office 425W 5.0.58x and later
 
Cisco
  • VPN 3000 Series Concentrator v. 4.7.1 and later
  • client 4.6.00.0049-K9 and later
  • Aironet 1200 Series Wireless Access Point v.12.2 (11)JA1 (Certified version)
 
Nortel
  • Connectivity 4.8.083 (Tunnelguard TG_1.1.3.0_002)
 
Enterasys
  • RoamAbout R2 G060405 and later
 

Solaris Platform

  VPN-1 Pro SmartCenter Server or
Enforcement Module		 SmartConsole
Processor UltraSparc II UltraSparc III
Free Disk Space Installation - 100MB Installation - 100MB
Memory 128MB RAM, 256 MB recommended 128MB
CD-ROM Drive Yes Yes
Network Adapter One or more Yes
Video Adapter   Supports 800 x 600 resolution
Note: SmartConsole on Solaris includes the following applications: SmartDashboard, SmartView Tracker, SmartView Monitor, Eventia Reporter, SmartUpdate, SmartLSM and User Monitor.

Minimum Requirements for Provider-1/SiteManager-1 MDS and MDG

  Multi-Domain Server (MDS) Multi-Domain GUI (MDG)
Processor UltraSparc II UltraSparc III
Disk Space Installation - 800MB Installation - 100MB
Memory 256MB 256MB
CD-ROM Drive Yes Yes
Network Adapter Yes Yes
Video Adapter Yes Supports 800 x 600 resolution

Minimum Requirements for Eventia Reporter on Solaris

Processor UltraSparc III
CPU 900 MHz
Free Disk Space Installation - 80MB
Database - 60GB (40GB for database, 20GB for database temporary directory)
Memory 1GB
CD-ROM Drive Yes
Network Adapter Yes

Minimum Requirements for VPN-1 Power SecurePlatform

Processor Intel Pentium III
CPU 300+ MHz or equivelant processor
Free Disk Space 4GB
Memory 256MB (512MB recommended)
CD-ROM Drive Yes (bootable)
Network Adapter One or more supported network cards
Video Adaptor supports 1024 x 768 resolution

Minimum Requirements for Provider-1/SiteManager-1 MDS and MDG

Processor Intel Pentium III
CPU 300+ MHz or equivelant processor
Disk Space 4GB
Memory 256MB
CD-ROM Drive Yes (bootable)
Network Adapter One or more supported network cards
Video Adaptor supports 1024 x 768 resolution

Nokia Platform

  IPSO Hardware Platform
Disk-based Platforms 3.9 IP120, IP130, IP260, IP330, IP350, IP380, IP530, IP650, IP710, IP740, IP1220, IP1260
4.1 IP120, IP130, IP260, IP330, IP350, IP380, IP390, IP530, IP560, IP650, IP710, IP740, IP1220, IP1260, IP1260
Flash-based Platforms 3.9 IP265, IP355, IP385, IP1220, IP1260, IP2250
4.1 IP265, IP355, IP385, IP390, IP560, IP1220, IP2250, IP2255