Introduction
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Lights Out Management
The Check Point Lights Out Management (LOM) card lets you use a dedicated management channel to
remotely control Check Point appliances. Lights Out Management can also work when the appliance is
turned off or does not respond. However, the appliance must be connected to a power source.
For more information about Lights Out Management, see the
Lights Out Management Administration
Guide
.
Dual Redundant BIOS
To ensure resilience in the event of a BIOS failure, 26000/28000 Appliances are equipped with dual
redundant BIOS images.
If an appliance encounters a BIOS failure, it boots 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:
n
The appliance's Alert LED on the front panel blinks red.
n
The
Gaia Portal Maintenance
>
Hardware Health
page shows that the BIOS sensor is
Invalid
and
its status is
Off
.
Example (from a 26000 appliance):
n
An SNMP trap message is sent (if the
biosFailure
trap was configured in the
Gaia Portal
or
Gaia Clish
).
Example:
To recover from a BIOS failure, see
or contact
. The appliance is fully
functional until the BIOS recovery is completed. Note that it can take a few minutes for it to boot in BIOS
recovery mode.
