First Time CheckPoint Set-Up

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## First Time CheckPoint™ Set-Up

After you have deployed the CheckPoint Server, and set up the CheckPoint Database, you must start the License Manager and perform a "first time CheckPoint set-up".

This process creates an initialization file that the CheckPoint Server will use to find and access the database as well as create your first administrator account in the database.

### 1. Connect and Begin the First Time Set-Up

Open the CheckPoint Server Remote Administrator tool. Enter the URL to the CheckPoint Servers SOAP interface. (See: Connect to CheckPoint Server for more information on the URL format)

Once you have successfully contacted the CheckPoint Server - it will detect that it has not been configured yet and will display the following warning:

Click Yes. This will start the database configuration step.

### 2. Database Configuration

Once you click yes, the CheckPoint Database Connection Configuration dialog will appear as shown in the image:

Choose which database type you want to use and enter any necessary details for connection purposes. See: Configuring CheckPoint to Use Microsoft Access or Configuring CheckPoint to Use Microsoft SQL Server. Once you are ready, click OK.

When you click OK, the database connection information will be sent to the CheckPoint Server and it will try and find the database specified (and access it using the credentials if using SQL Server). The database will also be checked to ensure that it contains the correct table schema and its integrity is intact. If there is any problem, you will be warned and advised what to do.

If the database configuration specified is fine and the other tests succeed, a simple text file "checkpointcfg.ini" will be created in the same directory on the server as the checkpoint.dll. This file contains the necessary information to connect to the database for all subsequent operations. Now that the database has been configured correctly you must create your first administrator:

### 3. Create the First Administrator

After the database has been configured correctly, the CheckPoint Server will detect that no administrator accounts have been created yet and will warn you to immediately create one. It is important that you create an administrator now because until the first one is created, some operations will succeed - even without a user being logged in.

Click "Yes" to create your first administrator. Once you do, the Create CheckPoint Administrator dialog will appear, simply enter the name and password of your first administrator

The new account information will be uploaded and the First Time configuration will be complete.