Gidget is my new name for Checkpoint NG because it is a total tease. Today, I successfully pushed a policy from the back-up management console to the back-up firewall on version 4.1. It took most of the morning to get the damned things to version 4.1, I should have stopped and waited a night so that the server would get backed-up, however, given the extremely overdue nature of the project, I pushed forward. After the upgrade to NG for the second time, the backup management console exhibited the same behavior as the production console - I couldn't manipulate objects in the object database, nor load licenses with SmartUpdate. Before I gave up from exhaustion around 5:45, I tried manually upgrading the objects database, which bombed out leaving me with the proverbial pile of rumble. Tomorrow, I will see what I can do to resurrect the beast. Perhaps I can put it back on the network, copy the production (4.1) configs over and try to do the manual update once again.
