Corrupted fwauth.NDB file
- The fwauth.NDB file gets corrupted and causes the FWD process to fail.
fwd.elg file has the error “Cannot load objects database ndb_open: database ‘magic number’ corrupted(/opt/CPsuite-R60/fw1/database/fwauth.NDB) Users Database is lost: unable to reload”
Having seen this error occur more than once over the past year, I thought it was important to bring up for any large enterprise customers.
The short of it is if you have a very high traffic load corruption can occur in the fwauth.NDB.
Check Point does have a customer hotfix for R65 HFA_50, but the true fix is HFA_70 on R65.
My recommendation would be to HFA_70 for R65.
Side note, this did occur in R60 as well. There is a custom hotfix that did fix the issue that is not longer available. You will need to upgrade to R65 if you have this problem on R60.