Check Point Firewall R80.10 First Time Configuration Wizard

Subject: Check Point Firewall R80.10 First Time Configuration Wizard

Author: Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Country: Singapore
Date: 10 Apr 2025 Thursday

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS
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Welcome to the Check Point First Time Configuration Wizard

Click Next

Deployment Options
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Click Continue with R80.10 configuration

Click Next

Management Connection
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Interface: eth0
Configure IPv4: Manually
IPv4 address: 192.168.1.99
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Configure IPv6: Off

Click Next

Internet Connection
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Configure the interface to connect to the Internet (optional)

Interface: eth1

Configure IPv4: Off

Configure IPv6: Off

Click Next

Device Information
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Host Name: checkpoint
Domain Name: teo-en-ming-corp.com
Primary DNS Server: 8.8.8.8
Secondary DNS Server: 8.8.4.4
Tertiary DNS Server: Leave blank

Uncheck Use a Proxy server

Click Next

Date and Time Settings
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Click Use Network Time Protocol (NTP):

Primary NTP server: 0.sg.pool.ntp.org

Secondary NTP server: 1.sg.pool.ntp.org

Time Zone: Singapore, Asia (GMT +8:00)

Click Next

Installation Type
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Click Security Gateway and/or Security Management

Click Next

Products
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Click Security Gateway

Click Security Management

Click Automatically download Blade Contracts and other important data (high=
ly recommended)

Click Next

Security Management Administrator
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Click Use Gaia administrator: admin

Click Next

Security Management GUI Clients
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GUI clients can log into the Security Management from:

Click Any IP Address

Click Next

First Time Configuration Wizard Summary
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Your device will be configured with the following products:

Security Gateway

Security Management: Primary Security Management

Click Improve product experience by sending data to Check Point

Click Finish

This will start the configuration process. Are you sure you want to continu=
e?

Click Yes

Finishing the Firewall Configuration
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After configuration completes, the firewall will reboot automatically.

Login from the CLI and shut down the firewall gracefully.

checkpoint> halt
CLINFR0519  Configuration lock present. Can not execute this command. To ac=
quire the lock use the command 'lock database override'.
checkpoint> lock database override
checkpoint> halt
Are you sure you want to halt?(Y/N)[N]
y

checkpoint>
Broadcast message from admin (Thu Apr 10 16:20:42 2025):

The system is going down for system halt NOW!

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/cpsg-R80-10# du -h hda.qcow2
7.5G    hda.qcow2

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/cpsg-R80-10# du hda.qcow2
7779208 hda.qcow2

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/cpsg-R80-10# sha1sum hda.qcow2
afd915e0624d8a6f983cc4138c99b714d04daafa  hda.qcow2

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Singapore
10 Apr 2025 Thursday 11.13 PM