WAAS Cached content access through Checkpoint firewall

Question

          Hello,
I would like to open access to the cached content on the WAAS from a server through a Checkpoint firewall. The server has to have L3 access to the actual WAE device, from what I understand. Is this feasable? What ports would I need to open in the Checkpoint?
Thanks
Doug Bradfield      

Answer 1

Hello Douglas,
You're correct, if you see an optimized connection  is probably being cache ( probably not the whole file)  there is a big difference between "cache data" and "preposition data" .
Cache data is not for you to control or manually retrieve from the WAE box. WAAS controls what is being cache or delete when more new data comes through.
Preposition data is something you can manually store on the Remote WAE so remote users are benefit of a faster access to files already preposition. But this is uppon remote users request to the server( Users don't know that WAAS exist they just see the  server-share they've always use) so WAAS notice that a user is requesting a file that a remote WAE already got in their preposition files, so it provide faster access to the file.
Neither of this two options above will let you access WAAS content like you describe on the initial question, you said you want open access to WAE files from a server right ?  you can still get the files on your server and this files can be optimazed if you  server is behind the WAAS optimization path, but you'd need to go and from the server copy the files one by one just like if you were retrieving them from a  client PC.
hope this helps!