Wednesday 29 February 2012

Upgrade to R70.50 from R70.30/40 fails due to licensing errors on IPSO

Hi everyone,

It's been awhile since I've posted anything, but tonight I actually experienced something I hadn't seen before, so I figured I should share:

I was in the process of upgrading three separate clusters from R70.30/R70.40 to R70.50 and was presented with this error upon running the UnixInstallScript:

# ./UnixInstallScript

***********************************************************
Welcome to Check Point R70.50 Installation
***********************************************************
In order to install Check Point R70.50 you must first install Check Point R70 Software Blades
For additional information please refer to the release notes.


I checked the licenses and noticed that I was in fact already using Blade Licenses on some clusters, while on one I was still using the old system.

This perplexed me greatly. Upon digging around in /opt I noticed that CPshared was *completely* missing (if anyone knows why this is, please let me know):
# cd /opt
# ls -lah CPshared
ls: CPshared: No such file or directory

Upon realizing that this was the case, I moved to correct the issue (CPshared is just a link to /svn really)
# mkdir CPshared
# cd CPshared
# ln -s /opt/CPsuite-R70/svn 5.0

Once this was complete and I had 5.0 linking to /svn, I tried to run the script once again (with success!):

***********************************************************
Welcome to Check Point R70.50 Installation
***********************************************************
The following components will be installed:
 * R70.50
Installation Application is about to stop all Check Point Processes.
Do you wish to continue (y/n) [y] ?


I've seen a few unanswered posts around the community with the same error, so hopefully this will help someone out :)

Cheers,