Re: [FW1] Management Console config disappeared

[Randall Kizer <randall@FW1-NOSPAMintelenet.net>]

For what it's worth, I recently saw a similar entry in my log where the 
firewall policy was suddenly "uninstalled".  I know no one uninstalled the 
policy because I was testing the firewall in my lab prior to deployment.


At 01:58 PM 9/18/00 +1200, Little, Craig (SSI-SIAP-NP5) wrote:

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>My management console seems to have lost its configuration
>information.
>
>I'm running 4.1 SP1 with Hotfix on NT. All seemed to be working fine
>on Friday when I left, but today I cannot get into the Policy Editor.
>When I checked the settings using cpconfig, everything has
>disappeared - licenses, admins, gui clients, even IP address. The
>machine had been restarted over the weekend as part of a DRP
>exercise. The only clue are 2 suspect log entries:
>
>FireWall-1: uninstall: Operation failed: The system could not find
>the environment option that was entered.
>FW1SVC: Failed to uninstall FireWall Module (rc=1)
>
>Looks like someone might have tried to uninstall the software -
>considering there are only 3 people who know the password it should
>be easy to track. At the moment I'm looking at backing essential
>files up and reinstalling the management console.
>
>Any ideas???
>
>Craig.
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