topic Re: SmartConsole Result parsing in Firewall and Security Management

SmartConsole Result parsing

Kip_Banfield — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:25:48 GMT

Is there a way to parse out or filter your results in the SmartConsole CLI like something comparable to grep?

Re: SmartConsole Result parsing

Vladimir — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:43:45 GMT

From the expert mode, yes:

[Expert@GW8010:0]# cplic print | grep 419AQF2

11 | 419AQF2 | 13Sep2018 | CPSB-ASPM-DEMO
[Expert@GW8010:0]#

From clish, not really.

Re: SmartConsole Result parsing

Danny — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:44:28 GMT

The SmartConsole CLI can be directly accessed from within SmartConsole by clicking the icon on the bottom left corner or from the Gaia CLI shell (clish), where you need to login as a management user first.

SmartConsole -> Management CLI:

To access the Management CLI In Gaia's CLI shell (clish) type:

mgmt login‍

mgmt login user myname‍

After that you remain in the familiar Gaia shell, but now you can use the management APIs.

Example:

> mgmt login user 
Enter password: ******

> show interfaces
eth0
eth0.3
lo
> mgmt add host name myHost12 ip-address 3.3.3.3
> mgmt publish

        message "OK"
        number-of-published-changes     1

>     ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The syntax is identical to the commands that you run in the SmartConsole GUI.
All management commands start with the word "mgmt".

Neither Gaia clish not the Management CLI (SmartConsole CLI ) feature any result filters, such as grep, at the moment.
However, you can access these CLI's from Gaia's expert mode and filter results via grep there.

Example:

[Expert@Management:0]# clish -c "mgmt login user USERNAME password PASSWORD"
[Expert@Management:0]# clish -c "mgmt show-version" | grep edition
os-edition: "64-bit"‍‍‍

Re: SmartConsole Result parsing

Vladimir — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 01:49:46 GMT

Danny,

When I am trying to execute clish -c "mgmt xxx", I am getting database lock errors:

SMS8010> lock database override
CLICMD0201 Config lock is already turned on.
SMS8010> expert
Enter expert password:

Warning! All configurations should be done through clish
You are in expert mode now.

[Expert@SMS8010:0]# clish -c "mgmt login user admin password FakePWD"
CLINFR0771 Config lock is owned by admin. Use the command 'lock database override' to acquire the lock.
[Expert@SMS8010:0]# clish -c "mgmt login user admin"
CLINFR0771 Config lock is owned by admin. Use the command 'lock database override' to acquire the lock.
Enter password:
[Expert@SMS8010:0]# clish -c "mgmt show-version"
CLINFR0771 Config lock is owned by admin. Use the command 'lock database override' to acquire the lock.
MGMT9205 You are not logged in to management server, in order to log-in you will need to run "mgmt login user [user name]"
[Expert@SMS8010:0]#

CLI is the only active session.

Any ideas?

Re: SmartConsole Result parsing

Kip_Banfield — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 19:55:27 GMT

When I go into SmartConsole CLI From the Icon and try and type mgmt login it tells me message: "Requested API command: [Mgmt] not found". What I would like to be able to do is do a show_group and parse out just the member names without displaying out the rest of the Information. I can do it from the mgmt_cli when I ssh directly into the management station with this command "mgmt_cli show-group name "Group Name" --root true --format json | $CPDIR/jq/jq ".members[].name" but would like to do the from the SmartConsole CLI.

Re: SmartConsole Result parsing

PhoneBoy — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:24:43 GMT

When you are in the SmartConsole CLI, you do not need to login as you are already logged in.

As far as I know, you cannot pipe output from the SmartConsole CLI to another Unix shell command.

Re: SmartConsole Result parsing

Tomer_Sole — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:30:05 GMT

Hi, please notice that the beginning of the API syntax differs if it runs from within SmartConsole CLI, Gaia clish, expert mode mgmt_cli or via web services.

API execution mode	Prefix for commands	Example	Supports login / publish?	Can grep results?
SmartConsole CLI	no prefix.	add host name "New Host 1" ip-address "192.0.2.1"	No, because it runs on the session that was already logged in. Publish is only supported via GUI button in this case.	No
Gaia clish	mgmt	mgmt add host name "New Host 1" ip-address "192.0.2.1"	Yes	Yes
Expert mode mgmt_cli	mgmt_cli	mgmt_cli add host name "New Host 1" ip-address "192.0.2.1"	Yes	Yes
Web services	sending an HTTP POST request. Notice the command name has all hyphens and no spaces unlike the others	POST {{server}}/add-host Content-Type: application/json X-chkp-sid: {{session}} { "name" : "New Host 1", "ip-address" : "192.0.2.1" }	Yes	Not directly