Dual Redundant Bios - Check Point 15000 Getting Started Manual

15000 / 23000 Appliances Hardware

Dual Redundant BIOS

To ensure resilience in the event of a BIOS failure, 15000 and 23000 Appliances are
equipped with dual redundant BIOS images.
If an appliance encounters a BIOS failure, it will boot up from a recovery, read-only
BIOS image that enables full functionality of the appliance.
These notifications are shown in the event of a BIOS failure:
• The appliance's Alert LED on the front panel will blink red.
• The Gaia WebUI Hardware Health window shows that the BIOS sensor is Invalid
and its status is Off.
• An SNMP trap message (if the biosFailure trap was configured in the WebUI or
through clish).
To recover from a BIOS failure, see sk108517
(http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk108517) or contact Check Point
support. The appliance is fully functional until the BIOS recovery is completed.
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