Check Point Performance Evaluation Utility - Early Availability

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Check Point Performance Evaluation Utility - Early Availability

Brief Description This lightweight utility enables you to measure your appliance performance to gain insight on the ongoing throughput and resource utilization.

Details: File Name: cpeval.tgz Product: 2012 Models Security Appliances, Data Center Security Appliances, Power-1, UTM-1 Version: 4200, 4600, 4800, 12200, Check Point 21400, 12400, 12600, 2200, R75, R70, R71 OS: SecurePlatform MD5: [td] ab379f94949f2625d9e227fa5c625f73[/td] Size: 25.92 KB Date Published: 1/19/2012 0:0:0

Instructions: To run the utility, download and open the file cpeval.tgz onto a directory on your Check Point appliance. Change permissions of the script with the command: chmod +x cpeval. Run the script by using the command: ./cpeval. The script runs for 24 hours and stops automatically at the end of the run. To view the performance data collected by the script use the command: ./cpeval -S then choose option 1. By sharing your performance output with Check Point you will help improve the quality of our products and enable us to contact you if we find something that requires immediate attention. To do this, please send the resulting archive to:

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Check Point released a Performance Evaluation Utility for their appliances.

Purpose of this utility is to gather information about CPU and memory consumption, throughput etc. in combination with your appliance model and the activated blades.

This information is analyzed by Check Point and used for the Appliance Selection Tool and other projects where they need to verify their assumptions about real world appliance behaviour against actual live environments.

If something suspicious is found, they will contact you and give you feedback about their findings.

Also, if you’re just curious about how your appliances is doing throughout a normal day, run this script and check the summary. If necessary you can dig into the raw data for troubleshooting.

Output looks like this:

Measured Data
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* Maximum gateway throughput: 785.340831 Mbps
* Maximum packet rate: 79343 Packets/sec
* Maximum CPU: 99%
* Maximum CPU core #0: 100%
* Maximum kernel CPU: 45%
* Maximum kernel CPU core #0: 45%
Number of unique IPs behind gateway: 85
Maximum concurrent connections: 1000
Maximum memory utilization: 1240 MB
Accelerated packets: 100.00%
VPN traffic: 0.08%
Detected interface packet drops: no
Detected install policy: no
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