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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 not responding. However, the appliance must be connected to a power source.
For more about using Lights Out Management, see the
Lights Out Management Administration Guide
.
Dual Redundant BIOS
To ensure resilience in the event of a BIOS failure, 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:
n
The appliance's Alert LED on the front panel will blink red.
n
The
Gaia Portal Maintenance
>
Hardware Health
page shows that the BIOS sensor is
Invalid
and
its status is
Off
.
Example:
n
An SNMP trap message is sent (if the
biosFailure
trap was configured in the
Gaia Portal
or
Gaia Clish
).
