# HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release Updates

**Product**: Maestro HyperScale Firewall, Multi-Domain Security Management, Scalable Chassis, Security Gateways, Security Management, VSX (Traditional)

**Version**: R81 (EOS), R81.10 (EOS), R81.20, R82, R82.10

**OS**: Gaia

**Last Modified**: 2026-07-19

## Solution

**Introduction | Availability | List of Resolved Issues | Known Limitations | Manual Installation**

## Introduction

**HealthCheck Point (HCP)** is a self-updatable suite of tools that helps you:

- **Tests**- Identify potential issues before they affect the system
- **WTS (What's The Story)**- Track critical and informational events with a clear timeline
- **Topology**- Understand your firewall topology at a glance

HealthCheck Point supports all Gaia versions starting from R80.10.

The HCP package is installed automatically on all relevant Check Point devices when Automatic Update downloads are enabled (see [sk175504](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk175504), section 2-B).

If Automatic Updates are disabled, you must first manually install the latest [AutoUpdater](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk165653) Take and then install the HCP package manually using the steps below, in the Manual Installation section.

## Availability

|     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Product** | **Update** | **Take** | **Release Date** | **Download package** |
| - **Security Gateways**<br>- **Maestro**<br>- **Scalable Chassis**<br>- **VSX Gateways**<br>- **Management Servers**<br>- **Multi-Domain Servers**<br>- **Multi-Domain Log Servers**<br>- **Log Servers**<br>- **SmartEvent Servers** | Update 30 | Take 95 | 19 Jul 2026 | [Download](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/download/144377) (TAR) |

## List of Resolved Issues and New Features per Update for HCP

| ID | Description |
| --- | --- |
| **Update 30 - Take 95 - Gradual deployment from 19 July 2026** |  |
| HCP-1667 | Enhancement: Added new automated HCP health checks, including consolidated "Gaia API Health" and "SNMP Health tests". |
| HCP-1667 | Enhancement: Added a new "Image MD5 Consistency" test for Scalable Platforms. |
| HCP-1397 | Enhancement: Expanded the "IPMI Health test" to include LOM health checks and renamed it to "IPMI and LOM Health". |
...
| HCP-6 | **NEW:** Added a test that checks if tables reached their limits. |

## Known Limitations

| Issue ID | Description |
| --- | --- |
| HCP-477 | When running the Cluster test on a cluster with more more than two members, Standby member is shown in Down state. |
| HCP-903 | In a Maestro setup, MTU test may take up to 30 minutes. |

## Manual Installation (Offline)

- ### Instructions for Security Gateways, VSX, Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator, Management Servers, Log Servers

1. Download the latest HCP TAR from the **Availability** table.

2. Run this command in the Expert mode:

`# autoupdatercli install <Full Path to the TAR Package>`

**Note:** The installation does not require a restart of Check Point services ("`cpstop; cpstart`") or a reboot. After it is installed, no further action is required. The future updates are applied immediately.

- ### Instructions for Security Groups R80.20SP and higher (Maestro and Scalable Chassis)

1. Download the latest HCP TAR from the **Availability** table.

2. Copy the TAR to all other members:

`# asg_cp2blades -b all <Full Path to the TAR Package>`

3. Run this command in the Expert mode:

`# g_all autoupdatercli install <Full Path to the TAR Package>`

4. Delete the TAR file from your system as it is no longer needed after installation.

### Install Validation log

Make sure the package was correctly install.

## Uninstall

Run this command in the Expert mode: `# autoupdatercli revert-completely hcp`

### Uninstall Validation log

Make sure the package was correctly uninstalled.

## SmartConsole Extension Installation

**Prerequisites:**

1. Make sure the HCP package is installed on your Security Management Server
2. Run the "`hcp -r all`" command at least once on each Security Gateway you want to see the report from.