topic Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain in API / CLI Discussion

Minor bug showing a particular domain

Bob_Zimmerman — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:34:41 GMT

Found what appears to be a minor bug showing the full properties of an object which comes with Check Point management servers' default configurations. This is on R82 jumbo 12:

[Expert@DallasSC]# mgmt_cli -f json -r true -d "System Data" show object uid "41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde" { "object" : { "uid" : "41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde", "name" : "SMC User", "type" : "domain", "domain" : { "uid" : "a0eebc99-afed-4ef8-bb6d-fedfedfedfed", "name" : "System Data", "domain-type" : "mds" }, "icon" : "Objects/domain", "color" : "black" } } [Expert@DallasSC]# !! details-level full mgmt_cli -f json -r true -d "System Data" show object uid "41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde" details-level full { "code" : "generic_err_object_not_found", "message" : "Requested object [41e821a0-3720-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9fde] not found" }

I only noticed it when I was trying to fetch a bunch of predefined objects so I can prepopulate documents. Definitely no impact at this point.

Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain

PhoneBoy — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:56:42 GMT

As you probably know, the generic object APIs aren’t officially supported.
Not sure it’d be considered a bug 😉

Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain

Bob_Zimmerman — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:32:52 GMT

I'm only calling 'show object'. There's no "generic" anywhere there except in the error returned when I run 'show object ... details-level full'.

Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain

Amir_Senn — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:31:51 GMT

It seems to me that this might happen for specific objects that doesn't support full-details.

This "SMC User" object is kind of unique.

Can you see if this happens to you on other objects as well?

Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain

Bob_Zimmerman — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:01:57 GMT

Oops. Turns out I noticed this almost a year ago and was told it's expected behavior.

Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain

Daniel_Kuhl1 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:02:49 GMT

That's what I thought in first place after reading your post: it's expected for objects like this, but I really was not 100% sure without validating it myself or asking someone who knows it. 😁

Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain

Bob_Zimmerman — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:19:47 GMT

It still seems like the error message should be better. Telling me it can't find the object is ridiculous. The same API call with one less parameter found it.

Re: Minor bug showing a particular domain

Daniel_Kuhl1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:25:52 GMT

Indeed the error message could be better and should be more specific. After checking the available error messages, it seems that it's the most closest or most accurate. It should be telling you that there are no full details available for this object or something like this.