Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Restablishing the SIC communication for Checkpoint

FirewallA[admin]# cpconfig
This program will let you re-configure
your Check Point products configuration.

Configuration Options:
----------------------
(1) Licenses
(2) SNMP Extension
(3) PKCS#11 Token
(4) Random Pool
(5) Secure Internal Communication
(6) Enable Check Point High Availability/State Synchronization
(7) Automatic start of Check Point Products

(8) Exit

Enter your choice (1-8) :5

Configuring Secure Internal Communication...
============================================
The Secure Internal Communication is used for authentication between
Check Point components

Trust State: Trust established

Would you like re-initialize communication? (y/n) [n] ? y

Note: The Secure Internal Communication will be reset now.
No communication will be possible until you reset and re-initialize the
communication properly!
Are you sure? (y/n) [n] ? y

Enter Activation Key: xyz123

Again Activation Key: xyz123

initial_module:
Compiled OK.

Hardening OS Security: Initial policy will be applied until the first
policy is installed

The Secure Internal Communication was successfully initialized

Configuration Options:
----------------------
(1) Licenses
(2) SNMP Extension
(3) PKCS#11 Token
(4) Random Pool
(5) Secure Internal Communication
(6) Enable Check Point High Availability/State Synchronization
(7) Automatic start of Check Point Products

(8) Exit

Enter your choice (1-8) :8

Thank You...

You have changed Check Point products Configuration.
You need to restart ALL Check Point modules (performing cpstop &
cpstart)
in order to activate the changes you have made.
Would you like to do now? (y/n) [y] ? y
VPN-1/FW-1 stopped

SVN Foundation: cpd stopped
SVN Foundation: cpWatchDog stopped
SVN Foundation stopped
initial_module:
Compiled OK.

Hardening OS Security: Initial policy will be applied
until the first policy is installed

cpstart: Start product - SVN Foundation

SVN Foundation: Starting cpWatchDog
SVN Foundation: Starting cpd
SVN Foundation started

cpstart: Start product - FireWall-1

FireWall-1: starting external VPN module -- OK
FireWall-1: Starting VPN-1 Accelerator Card
VPN-1: The VPN Accelerator driver is not responding
VPN-1 Accelerator Card is not enabled
FireWall-1: Failed to start VPN-1 Accelerator Card
FireWall-1: Starting fwd

Installing Security Policy InitialPolicy on all.all@FirewallA
Fetching Security Policy from localhost succeeded

Fetching Security Policy From: 192.1.1.1

Fetch failed: Connection failed - SIC failure
Policy Fetch Failed
Failed to fetch policy from masters in masters file
FireWall-1 started

cpstart error: UserAuthority was not started, marked as not active.

cpstart error: FloodGate-1 was not started, marked as not active.

cpstart error: SmartView Monitor was not started, marked as not active.

cpridstop: cprid stopped

cpridstart: Starting cprid
[1] 21300
FirewallA[admin]#
FirewallA[admin]#

Also Reset SIC on the firewall object from the Security Policy:

1.Double click on the Firewall Object on Policy
2.Click on Communication.
3.Click on Reset Button.
4.Put the activation key
5.Put the activation Key on Confirm Activation Key
6.Click on Initialize button.
7.Click on Test SIC status.
8.Push the policy

Verify the policy push on the firewall.

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