Welcome to lesson 6. Today we will finally work with the famous Check Point graphical interface, which many people love and some hate. If you remember the last lesson, I mentioned that security settings can be managed either through SmartConsole or via a special API that was introduced only in version R80. In this lesson, we will start working with SmartConsole. I'm sorry, but the topic of the API is excluded from our course.
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I'd like to point out how much the R80 interface has changed compared to previous releases. It’s quite simple to see, as the difference is enormous. Here you see the R77.30 interface:
It's actually called SmartDashboard, not SmartConsole. And it looks quite similar, even to earlier releases, such as R65 and younger. That is, the interface for managing security policies has not changed much, neither externally nor logically, over many years. But everything has radically changed with the arrival of the R80 family.
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The visual difference is obvious. The interface has become more modern and aesthetically pleasing, but that’s not the main point. The logic of the console has fundamentally changed in R80. For me, for example, it was very challenging to switch to the new console. However, after working with it, I realized that it is quite good) In my subjective opinion, working in the R80 console is much more convenient than in R77.30. But this is more a matter of habit. Many still grumble about the new interface.
I see no point in discussing the console through pictures; it's better to see it 'live'. Below you will find a video lesson demonstrating the interface. We will also connect the gateway to our management. server.
Video lesson
The next lesson will be on Monday and will first appear on our .
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