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* Unofficial/unsupported Object Filler and Object Dumper for Check Point's   *
* SmartCenter Server and Provider-1 MDS - Developed by Martin Hoz            *
* (c) 2003-2005 by Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. and subsidiaries  *
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* Version 2.2 - December 2005                                                *
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What's New
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* Object Filler
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- Fixed bug: When there was a comma in  the  comments  field  of  the  object, 
  Object Filler didn't behave well. Now it works correctly.
- Fixed bug: Alert was not properly recognized as a Track option for  security 
  rules. Now is recognized and applied properly.
- Fixed bug: Under some circumstances, IP ranges were not  processed  properly 
  throwing an error “Found out that specified parameters don't make  sense  as 
  specified object type requires. Ignoring...” – Now all the Object Ranges are 
  under all circumstances processed correctly.
- Now when processing Service Groups, Object Filler recognizes if the  service 
  being added is a predefined one. If it is  a  predefined  service,  then  it 
  processes it successfully  even  though  such  service  was  not  explicitly 
  processed during the program execution.
- Now  when  importing  from  PIX  configurations,  it  does   Service   Group 
  recognition with the properly group type (TCP/UDP) for the services.
- Added support to configure Host Objects as Mail and DNS Servers.  Useful  in  
  R55W and R60.
- Added support for InterSpect gateways. Useful from R55W and up.
- Added support for Connectra gateways. Useful from R60 and up. 
- Added support for Multicast Address Ranges. Useful on R60 only.
- Added support for Empty Groups (groups that have no elements inside them).
- Added support for Groups with Exclusion (groups with Exceptions).
- Different policy packages are now  recognized  properly  using  the  keywork 
  “rulebase_header”. Object Filler recognized, imports and process these  tags 
  appropriately.  
- Tested to work properly on Provider-1 NGX R60 and SmartCenter NGX R60  (with 
  some limitations. Please read the limitations section)

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* Object Dumper
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- Added support to recognize Host Objects as Mail and DNS Servers.  Useful  in 
  R55W and R60.
- Added support for Multicast Address Ranges. Useful on R60 only.
- Added support for InterSpect gateways. Useful from R55W and up.
- Added support for Connectra gateways. Useful from R60 and up. 
- Added support for Empty Groups (groups that have no elements inside them).
- Added support for Groups with Exclusion (groups with Exceptions)
- Different policy packages are now  recognized  properly  using  the  keywork 
  “rulebase_header”. Object Dumper exports these tags appropriately.
- Now Object Dumper recognized the default objects by Object Type and not only 
  by object name.

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* Documentation
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- Created a Tutorial document, meant to  be  a  step-by-step  document  to  be 
  followed to perform some of the basic and powerful operations with the tools.
- Created a Provider-1 objects manipulation document, that shows (Among  other 
  things) how to move objects between CMAs and the MDS Global Objects Database.
- Added to the Documentation a “medium-level” (not too technical but  not  too 
  light) Presentation about the tools.