Recently I discovered that my Endpoint Security Management was experiecing a very high CPU load.

The 600 users killed my Xeon 2.8 GHz with 3 GB memory running with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Endpoint Management E80.20.

After consulting with the Check Point R&D and some debugging on the system we found out, that the Endpoint clients (8.0.986) we issuing too many Sync request which overloaded the server.

This was a known error and fixed in client version 8.1.205 which is available with E80.32.

After deploying the first clients we could see a drop in CPU load and when the installation on all clients finished, we were back to normal.

For me this means that it is always a good thing to stay up to date with the latest version.

Tobias Lachmann