topic Re: Show hosts filtered on ipv4-address in API / CLI Discussion

Show hosts filtered on ipv4-address

Bärbel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:15:42 GMT

I want to use the API to query if there are network objects having a specific ipv4-address. Is there really no way except using a filter which would also return objects if the ipv4-address is in other fields like comment, name etc.?

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Re: Show hosts filtered on ipv4-address

Alex- — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:30:27 GMT

There's an example in the API documentation: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/latest/APIs/#tips_best_practices~v2.1%20

Quickly with mgmt_cli:

mgmt_cli -r true show hosts details-level full -f json | jq -r '.objects[] | select(."ipv4-address" == "224.0.0.2")| [.name, .uid , ."ipv4-address"] |@csv' "routers_multicast","<removed>","224.0.0.2"

ipv4-address is an explicit field. Easily reproducible with other languages.

Re: Show hosts filtered on ipv4-address

Vincent_Bacher — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:33:39 GMT

In addition, example of an host

{ "uid" : "94a3f624-48f2-4630-97cd-4468c7ca5af8", "name" : "host_2", "type" : "host", "domain" : { "uid" : "a59b701f-79dd-49dd-b054-f3c92af4b608", "name" : "dom82", "domain-type" : "domain" }, "icon" : "Objects/host", "color" : "black", "ipv4-address" : "43.77.34.4" }

Unfortunately searching for a field like ipv4-address is not possible.

Re: Show hosts filtered on ipv4-address

Vincent_Bacher — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:40:19 GMT

P.S.: I would use filter in the search to reduce the results and then do the jq and select stuff

mgmt_cli -r true show hosts filter "10.0.1.5" details-level full -f json | \ jq -r '.objects[] | select(."ipv4-address" == "10.0.1.5") | [.name, .uid, ."ipv4-address"] | @csv'