topic Re: Oneliner - Show Management Server Tasks in Scripts

Oneliner - Show Management Server Tasks

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:51:25 GMT

This one-liner executes a management API query for successful tasks from the last 30 days, extracts the task name, status, and last modification time from the JSON output, converts the timestamp into a readable date and time format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM), and prints the results in aligned columns with fixed widths for better readability.

For example, it shows:

When the policy was installed
When the SMS database was installed
When signature updates were performed
And many other operational security-related tasks

mgmt_cli -r true show tasks status "successful" from-date "$(date -u -d '30 days ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)" --format json | jq -r '.tasks[] | . as $t | ($t["meta-info"]["last-modify-time"]["iso-8601"] | split("T")) as $d | "\($t["task-name"])\t\($t.status)\t\($d[0]) \($d[1][0:5])"' | awk -F'\t' '{ printf "%-80s %-20s %-20s\n", $1, $2, $3 }'

Re: Oneliner - Show Management Server Tasks

Vincent_Bacher — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:15:50 GMT

Hi @HeikoAnkenbrand

nice one.

unfortunately it Will not work with multi domain. With mdm the oneliner would be much longer and then when working with many cma using -r true is very inefficient.

Edith says:

first to loop over cma

mgmt_cli -r true show domains --format json | jq -r '.objects[] | .name'

Then for each domain

while read domain; do
mgmt_cli -r true show tasks status "successful" from-date "$(date -u -d '30 days ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)" -d "$domain" --format json

Could then be something like this

mgmt_cli -r true show domains --format json | jq -r '.objects[] | .name' | while read domain; do
mgmt_cli -r true show tasks status "successful" from-date "$(date -u -d '30 days ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)" -d "$domain" --format json |
jq -r --arg dom "$domain" '.tasks[]? | . as $t | ($t["meta-info"]["last-modify-time"]["iso-8601"] | split("T")) as $d | "\($dom)\t\($t["task-name"])\t\($t.status)\t\($d[0]) \($d[1][0:5])"'
done | awk -F'\t' '{ printf "%-20s %-80s %-20s %-20s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4 }'

Re: Oneliner - Show Management Server Tasks

the_rock — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:09:00 GMT

WOW...AMAZING!

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[Expert@CP-MANAGEMENT:0]# mgmt_cli -r true show tasks status "successful" from-date "$(date -u -d '30 days ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)" --format json | jq -r '.tasks[] | . as $t | ($t["meta-info"]["last-modify-time"]["iso-8601"] | split("T")) as $d | "\($t["task-name"])\t\($t.status)\t\($d[0]) \($d[1][0:5])"' | awk -F'\t' '{ printf "%-80s %-20s %-20s\n", $1, $2, $3 }'
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-27 00:15
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-22 00:15
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-24 00:15
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-23 00:15
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-29 00:15
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-25 00:15
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-26 00:15
CP-FW-01 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-28 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-22 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-25 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-23 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-26 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-27 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-28 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-29 00:15
CP-FW-02 - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-24 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-25 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-28 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-29 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-23 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-22 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-24 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-26 00:15
CP-GW - getCores-CMD succeeded 2026-01-27 00:15
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 22:39
Application Control & URL Filtering succeeded 2026-01-29 00:00
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-29 02:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-27 10:41
Policy installation - LAB-POLICY-Andy succeeded 2026-01-27 12:33
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 20:40
Install Database on CP-MANAGEMENT succeeded 2026-01-27 12:33
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-29 04:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-29 06:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-27 12:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-27 14:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-27 16:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-27 20:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-27 22:39
Application Control & URL Filtering succeeded 2026-01-28 00:00
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 00:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 02:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-27 18:40
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 04:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 06:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 10:39
Install Database on CP-SMARTEVENT succeeded 2026-01-27 12:33
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 12:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 14:39
IPS Management Update succeeded 2026-01-28 16:39
Policy installation - LAB-POLICY-Andy succeeded 2026-01-29 08:08
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