Check Point module

This is a module for Check Point firewall logs. It supports logs from the Log Exporter in the Syslog RFC 5424 format. If you need to ingest Check Point logs in CEF format then please use the CEF module (more fields are provided in the syslog output).

To configure a Log Exporter, please refer to the documentation by Check Point.

Example Log Exporter config:

cp_log_export add name testdestination target-server 192.168.1.1 target-port 9001 protocol udp format syslog

This module has been tested against Check Point Log Exporter on R80.X but should also work with R77.30.

You can further refine the behavior of the checkpoint module by specifying variable settings in the modules.d/checkpoint.yml file, or overriding settings at the command line.

You must enable at least one fileset in the module. Filesets are disabled by default.

Each fileset has separate variable settings for configuring the behavior of the module. If you don’t specify variable settings, the checkpoint module uses the defaults.

For advanced use cases, you can also override input settings. See Override input settings.

Example config:

- module: checkpoint
  firewall:
    var.syslog_host: 0.0.0.0
    var.syslog_port: 9001

var.paths

An array of glob-based paths that specify where to look for the log files. All patterns supported by Go Glob are also supported here. For example, you can use wildcards to fetch all files from a predefined level of subdirectories: /path/to/log/*/*.log. This fetches all .log files from the subfolders of /path/to/log. It does not fetch log files from the /path/to/log folder itself. If this setting is left empty, Filebeat will choose log paths based on your operating system.

var.syslog_host

The interface to listen to UDP based syslog traffic. Defaults to localhost. Set to 0.0.0.0 to bind to all available interfaces.

var.syslog_port

The UDP port to listen for syslog traffic. Defaults to 9001.

var.timezone_offset

IANA time zone or time offset (e.g. +0200) to use when interpreting syslog timestamps without a time zone. Defaults to UTC.

var.tags

A list of tags to include in events. Including forwarded indicates that the events did not originate on this host and causes host.name to not be added to events. Defaults to [checkpoint-firewall, forwarded].

var.ssl

The SSL/TLS configuration for the filebeat instance. This can be used to enforce mutual TLS.

ssl:
  enabled: true
  certificate_authorities: ["my-ca.pem"]
  certificate: "filebeat-cert.pem"
  key: "filebeat-key.pem"
  client_authentication: "required"

This module will parse Check Point Syslog data as documented in: Checkpoint Log Fields Description.

Check Point Syslog extensions are mapped as follows to ECS:

For a description of each field in the module, see the exported fields section.