SSL Network Extender (SNX) is not working

I'm also having this issue after upgrading to "El Capitan".. tried doing a manual upgrade using root access, but still encountering same "failed to initialize" error.

After upgrading to El Capitan, I found my SNX (SSL Network Extender) was no longer working. Specifically, when the Applet would begin to load I would get a dialogue indicating that the "SNX_Installer_Helper_Tool" (or something along those lines) need to install something and I needed to provide my system username and password. After doing so I would get the "Failed to initialize" error.

I found that Apple implemented a new security feature in El Capitan which restricts certain "things" from running from certain directories. This is called "System Integration Protection" or "rootless" for short. Apparently SNX runs from one of these, now restricted, directories and was causing my error. I simply had to disable "rootless" per these steps from OS X Daily and everything is working great now:

http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/05/disable-rootless-system-integrity-protection-mac- os-x/

Thanks for explaining the issue, @elkaboing .

However, is there any way to fix it without turning off the System Integration Protection? I'd want to keep it.

Maybe is there any way to install this snx tool by yourself, so the `/usr/bin/snx` command would work then?

I paste my logs from java snx installation, they are almost the same:

31/10/2015 02:59:01[Launcher] Launching chmod +x /Users/jtomaszewski/Library/Caches/SNXNM/snx_install.sh

31/10/2015 02:59:01[Launcher] Launching /Users/jtomaszewski/Library/Caches/SNXNM/snx_install.sh

31/10/2015 02:59:06[SNXNetMode] Checking communication to SNX Network Mode

31/10/2015 02:59:06[SNXNetMode] Failed to find /usr/bin/snx

31/10/2015 02:59:06[Component] Error, Can't communicate with component.

31/10/2015 02:59:06[Director] Failed to connect to the component

31/10/2015 02:59:06[CShell] Failed to initialize

Just googled a bit more. Patch to SNX will be released in November 2015: https://forums.checkpoint.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=23363 .

For now what u can do is to:

1) disable SIP
2) Install SNX
3) enable SIP

And everything will be okay then 😉

Excellent, thanks for doing the legwork on this