Geo Protection logs show the wrong country flag

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Solution ID	sk120261
Technical Level
Product	Quantum Security Management, Multi-Domain Security Management, SmartEvent / Eventia Analyzer
Version	R80 (EOL), R80.10 (EOL), R80.20 (EOL), R80.30 (EOL), R80.40, R81, R81.10
OS	Gaia
Date Created	17-Sep-2017
Last Modified	12-Jan-2023

Symptoms

The country flag in the source and destination columns is a cosmetic feature that indicates the country of the IP according to an internal mapping DB,
In some cases, the flag may not match the country according to the IP address that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has assigned for that country.

Cause

Important to emphasize that this is a cosmetic bug in logs presentation.

The internal mapping database (ip2country.csv) on the Security Management Server / Multi-Domain Management Server / SmartEvent Server / Log Server may not be up to date. Starting in version R80.40 Take 161 and higher, this is automatically updated from the cloud.

Solution

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