CPView Utility and High Load Traffic

If you have the situation and a fw has a high load on traffic sometimes you need tools to figure it out what causes the resulting high cpu load etc.

A great tool to use is Check Point's CPView:

https://community.checkpoint.com/videos/5977-the-cpview-utility

How to use CPView to get History data

Start the cpview history daemon

# cpview history on

Check the status of the history daemon

# cpview history stat

history daemon is activated

Check the history data (use <+> or <-> to scroll the time)

# cpview -t

Jump directly to timestamp

Check the date format

# date
Wed Nov 7 17:45:25 CET 2018

Go to a specific date/time

# cpview -t Wed Nov 7 11:17:00 CET 2018