topic Re: Management unused objects script in Scripts

Management unused objects script

the_rock — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:29:33 GMT

Re: Management unused objects script

Vincent_Bacher — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:17:13 GMT

Just had a view on the script using my mobile and have two thoughts.

I was wondering, does it make sense to check for jq right at the start and just exit if it's missing instead of checking nd exiting in the middle of the script?

Also, could it be that the script is a bit inefficient when many many objects come Into the gane by constantly reading and rewriting large data files? Perhaps appending the new data would be much faster. Correct me if I m wrong because misread the script.

Re: Management unused objects script

the_rock — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:22:25 GMT

Yea...thats why Im trying to see if I can test it on management with lots of unused objects. Let me try my standalone lab and see.

Re: Management unused objects script

Vincent_Bacher — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:33:49 GMT

Just tested on a test domain using

time ./cpunused.sh --user <my user> --password <my pass> --domain "TEST"

Script ran and created empty directory.

Re: Management unused objects script

simonemantovani — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:55:38 GMT

Hello

executing the script using bash -x cp_unused_objects.sh ... returns the error: jq: Unknown option --argjson

I tested the script on an MDS R81.20, JQ version is 1.4 and this version doesn't provide argjson option.

Re: Management unused objects script

Vincent_Bacher — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:10:37 GMT

On our R82 server i get the same error.

Re: Management unused objects script

Vincent_Bacher — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:15:25 GMT

Did some modifications and this version worked on a test domain in our environment:

================================================================================ CHECK POINT UNUSED OBJECTS REPORT ================================================================================ Generated: 2026-02-09 11:13:14 Domain: TEST ================================================================================ SUMMARY ================================================================================ Total unused objects: 9 Unused services: 4 Unused non-services: 5 ================================================================================ TOP 10 OBJECT TYPES ================================================================================ host 4 ( 44.4%) ###################### service-tcp 4 ( 44.4%) ###################### group 1 ( 11.1%) ##### ================================================================================ OUTPUT FILES ================================================================================ - ./cp_unused_2026-02-09_111310/unused_all.json - ./cp_unused_2026-02-09_111310/unused_all.csv - ./cp_unused_2026-02-09_111310/unused_services.csv - ./cp_unused_2026-02-09_111310/unused_non_services.csv - ./cp_unused_2026-02-09_111310/unused_report.txt ================================================================================ [INFO] [INFO] ================================================================================ [INFO] ✓ SUCCESS - All files exported to: /home/m4sebbl/cp_unused_2026-02-09_111310 [INFO] ================================================================================ [INFO] [INFO] Cleaning up session...

Re: Management unused objects script

Vincent_Bacher — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:33:58 GMT

@the_rock fyi:

Just tested this version on a CMA with more objects.

================================================================================ SUMMARY ================================================================================ Total unused objects: 2058 Unused services: 144 Unused non-services: 1914

Time used:

real 0m27.392s user 0m2.945s sys 0m2.828s

Re: Management unused objects script

the_rock — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:12:42 GMT

Will test it shortly.