We have to notice that for Check Point R70.30 Eventia Suite is a must. So even though you have not installed the Eventia Suite when you are installing R70, when you install the upgrade package R70.30 the Eventia Suite is automatically installed.
Now for R70 standalone installation of Eventia Suite is not supported. What we mean standalone is Management Server (SmartCenter Server) and Eventia Suite installed in the same machine. What Check Point mean by not supported here is that you can install the two components in a single host but the configuration in the Dashboard is not allowed.
So is it really not supported? Can't you use the Eventia Suite when it is installed along with the Management Server (primary management server).
The fact is you can. I searched a lot in various forums even in the Check Point Usercenter, but couldn't find anything regarding this issue.
But the solution is simple.
First of all what you need is a valid license :). Once you have installed a valid license you can proceed.
Second what you need to make sure is whether the appropriate servers are running. For this you can issue "evconfig" and enable the necessary components. After you have enabled the necessary components, restart the Eventia Suite by issuing "evstop;evstart".
Now login to SmartDashboard and edit the Management Server object.
In the General view of the management server object you can see the Management Software blades enabled for your management server. But you will notice that all the components related to Eventia products are greyed out, meaning you cannot enable them. Unless you enable them in the management object, you cannot connect to the management server using a Eventia client.
So we are kind of stuck here.......
But Check Point allows you to manually manipulate its object database using dbedit. What we can do is use the gui version of the dbedit, which is "guidbedit". This is located in the SmartConsole installation directory.
Launch GuiDbedit, and provide the credentials to login to the management server.
Go to network_objects and locate the management server object.
