Check Point R75 Cluster Setup
In this tutorial we will explore setting up a Check Point R75 Cluster consisting of 1 management server and 2 gateways.

Setting up a Check Point R75 Cluster
1. First up, connect to your management server with smartdashboard. My management status is called cpmgmt. Right click on the Check Point object on the right hand side and select Security Cluster – UTM-1/Power-1/Open Server Cluster/IP series…


















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very nice tut. I m new and it was very helpful, hmm.. I have a query, how many members we can add in cluster? like instead of 2 I want to add another one 3rd. i’m stuck at designing it? specially in sync network. what would be the connection topology? and 4 member clust’ng also??
Can you help me out?
thank you!
Hi Pradeep, it depends, are you wanting to create a High Availability Cluster or a Load Sharing Cluster ?
i figured it out.. Thanks for your reply btw. in High availability only one firewall will be active(100%) all as standby. in load sharing the load will be equally distributed. successfully ran Quad gateway cluster..
Now i’m banging my head on remote access vpn frm last 2 days will you help me??
This tutorial very helpful to me. But I am in a real case. I have a 4610 Appliance run in Secure Platform OS 75.40. I ‘ve just bought one more appliance, and intend to do a ClusterXL mode sharing. I find out the new one run in GAIA OS 75.40…I ‘m very worry about how to do now, what extactly steps I have to passthrough. I must consider some big risks to my company… CheckPoint is Exterior Firewall, if it down or not working as normal…I may be fined. Could you give me some suggestions for this case???
Thanks you very much 🙂
Hi Cong i would first run an image backup within webui, export the image to FTP, scp, or FTP server, then upgrade your existing firewall to Gaia. Make sure you read all the upgrade notes to make sure your device is compatible. You will need to schedule an outage window with your company and perform the upgrade. Then you can setup clustering
hi!
your blog is very informative.
is it possible to make a cluster with one firewall having the management server too. as if one of the clusters is a stand alone setup and the other one is a normal gateway.
You can create a cluster and add the host, which can contain gateway and management server. Or you can separate the roles and have one host as the gateway and the other as the management.
Hi, can we using clusterxl as stand alone/ not using management server? thanks
Hi John, not exactly sure what you mean ? As with any gateway there will be a management component otherwise you won’t be able to configure the gateway, this can be a separate server or can be installed on a gateway
Hi, I’m having issues setting up clusters in R81.10, HA module not started. I disable, reboot and enable the cluster on cpconfig but still getting the same error.
Any solution to my issues? Is there any tutorial similar to this for R81.10?