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Security Engineering - Lab Setup Guide
Check Point Software Technologies
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March 20, 2017
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Configuring the Lab Environment
The Check Point Security Engineering
class topology was designed as a “sandbox” environment
. All student
machines have the same set of IP addresses. The virtual machines do connect to the Internet, NATed
through the host machine. Internet connectivity is required for each host machine used by students attending
the course.
Follow the steps below to configure the virtual machines needed for the students to perform all Security
Administration labs. ATCs may use whatever virtualization software they choose, but Check Point assumes
most Virtual Machines will be created in either a VMware Workstation or an ESX environment. Our tests
were all performed on VMware Workstation 12.
A Special Note about Licensing
The built-in 15 day evaluation licenses are no longer used in this classroom configuration.
All Check
Point servers at the Alpha site are required to have a license before the students begin this class. The Bravo
license will be added during a specific lab by the students and should not be preloaded. To get 6-month BCK
licenses provided to you for use in this and other Check Point classes, contact your ATC coordinator.
Configuring Virtual Machine Settings
All virtual machines should be configured with the following options:
Snapshots
–
Just Power off
VMware Tools
–
Installed
Remove the Floppy from the Hardware Settings
Time Synchronization
–
Synchronization between Guest and Host should be active.
LDAP Information
Configure the virtual machines on the Alpha Internal network to be in the alpha.cp domain. All users
should log into the domain and not the local virtual machine.
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Lab Topology
Configure each student machine with the following virtual environment:
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Configuring the Virtual Machines Configure each of the virtual machines listed below on all student machines. The specifications shown here in terms of Hard Drive and RAM are considered minimum requirements. For better performance, these numbers should be increased. All user, OS, and application passwords should be: Chkp!234A-GUI Use the information below to configure the Alpha GUI Client virtual machine: Name:A-GUI OS:Windows Client Hard Drive:40GB RAM: 2GB The following Check Point modules will be installed during the labs: SmartConsole R77.30 Use the following information to configure the interface for this virtual machine: IP Address:10.1.1.201 Subnet Mask:255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 10.1.1.1 Interface:eth0 Network:Management (LAN 1)
