Check Point - How To Use CPView Utility - CLI

CPview Utility is a built-in utility on Check Point R77 and above, on both GAiA and (SPLAT) SecurePlatform 2.6. It's a text-based utility that can be run on Multi-Domain Management/Provider-1, Security Management and Security Gateway using command 'cpview'. The command work on both cpshell and expert mode.

Using this utility, statistical data of general system information such as CPU, Memory & Disk space) and different Software Blade information on Security Gateway. On Security Gateway, it's also possible to monitor machine's performance. The data is continuously updated in easy to access views. Break sequence to exit the continuously update view is 'Ctrl+C'.

Syntax:

cpview

Example:

Below output is from Security Gateway.

[Expert@CheckPointGateway]# cpview
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| CPVIEW.Overview                        13Feb2015 10:51:42 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| Overview SysInfo Network CPU Software-blades Advanced     |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| CPU:                                                      |
|                                                           |
| Num of CPUs:     12                                       |
|                                                           |
|       CPU      Used                                       |
|         0       14%                                       |
|         1       10%                                       |
|         3        2%                                       |
| --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Memory:                                                   |
|                                                           |
|            Total MB   Used MB   Free MB                   |
| Physical     11,865     2,882     8,983                   |
| FW Kernel     8,803       964     7,838                   |
| Swap         10,236         0    10,236                   |
| --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Network:                                                  |
|                                                           |
| Bits/sec                            280M                  |
| Packets/sec                      64,560                   |
| Connections/sec                     108                   |
| Concurrent connections            6,457                   |
| --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Disk space (top 3 used partitions):                       |
|                                                           |
| Partition  Total MB   Used MB   Free MB                   |
| /boot           288        50       223                   |
| /            31,741     5,058    25,044                   |
| /var/log    148,789     3,380   137,729                   |
| --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Events:                                                   |
|                                                           |
| # of monitored daemons crashes since last cpstart       0 |
|                                                           |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|

!! Break sequence Ctrl+C !!
[Expert@CheckPointGateway]#