{"id":2610,"date":"2025-06-29T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:27:45","slug":"fmc-7-4-2-object-deletion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=2610","title":{"rendered":"FMC 7.4.2 Object deletion."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got a requirement to deliver one of the task asked was, how can we delete all the Objects and Port from FMC, without re-imaging FMC to save time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found some examples and used AI to get corrected based on the requirement of my use case as below :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environment :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FMC running 7.4.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ubunutu 24 LTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Python 3.12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-requisites :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FMC IP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>admin users<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>admin password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Script will be posted here with my Git repositor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>==================watch this space ==============<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running the script from Linux Cli :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#python3 fmcobjectcleanup.py<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The menu is self Driven and easy :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-17.png 676w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-17-300x40.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Option 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-11.png 591w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-11-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Option2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12.png 676w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Option 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"388\" height=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-13.png 388w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-13-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Deleted object have output with text file with date and time example :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-14.png 367w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-14-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"381\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-15.png 381w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-15-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am just improving my automation skills and more focus to integrate all in one Gui as i was working Network Monitor Dashboard project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>example of deleting host object :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16-876x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16-876x1024.png 876w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16-768x898.png 768w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16-705x824.png 705w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16.png 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Labbbinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng..!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a requirement to deliver one of the task asked was, how can we delete all the Objects and Port from FMC, without re-imaging FMC to save time. I found some examples and used AI to get corrected based on the requirement of my use case as below : Environment : FMC running 7.4.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccie-sec","category-cisco","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}