Duplicate Objects

Welcome to the forums. What do you mean by duplicate objects? Firewall address objects? Email black/white list objects? User objects? etc.

What do you mean by duplicate objects?

would actually firewall address objects that were created by distraction more than once - with the same ip but different names

Ultraedit might be able to do it by itself or in conjunction with their sister product Ultracompare. What I did was search for all lines containing " set subnet " . I had the option show all lines checked. I then clicked on the clipboard, created a new document & pasted the lines in. In that new document, I used advanced sort and made sure that remove duplicates wasn' t checked. I set the first sorting field to 20 and 51 (go through your list to confirm!) and clicked on sort. I then copied the contents of that document into a new document & performed the same sort a second time but this time told it to remove duplicates. At this point, as I have the ultraedit suite, I saved the two documents & then launched Ultracompare & opened them. I then clicked on show me only the differences. The first doc showed me the duplicate lines. I copied each line & went back to ultraedit and did a search asking it to show each line. I then clicked on each result to take me to the section in the config & the line above gave me the unique name. As I said, ultraedit has some compare features built in & may be able to do it all internally. Equally, another text editor on steroids might fit the bill as well. Hope this helps. Victor

Very valuable information, thank you for all the effort I now excel