Get Duplicate Entries

Hello,

There is no such function in the DVLS PS Module. I will ask our engineering team if they can do something about it.

What would be the criteria to compare the entries? The entry's name, its host or something else?

Best regards,

Hi Erica

Thank you for your Answer.
Would be great if it would compare the Name, Group and Username.

Best Regards,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for your feedback.

I have created the feature request and we will keep you posted about it.

This thread has been moved to the Feature request forum's section.

Best regards,

Hi Andreas,

I would like to understand a bit more on your need. You want is to find duplicates in a vault. And what you consider a duplicate is two connections with the same name, in the same group (same folder) with the same username. Is it correct ? I'm asking because for another customer, a duplicate could be two connections pointing on the same host, with the same username for example. So we want to think a such feature globally to the system.

We don't have a such feature with our web interface today so we don't have that feature in our PowerShell Module either. So first, is it important to have a such feature via PowerShell Module ? And what exactly you want to do with those duplicate ? Is it to clean your vault because many users created the same connexion ? We would appreciate if you could give us more details about what you want to achieve and what is your need. Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Hi Francois

You want is to find duplicates in a vault. And what you consider a duplicate is two connections with the same name, in the same group (same folder) with the same username. Is it correct ?

Yes, thats exactly how i want to check for Duplicates. But maybe there are better Routines available (like already existing function in RDM)?

We don't have a such feature with our web interface today so we don't have that feature in our PowerShell Module either. So first, is it important to have a such feature via PowerShell Module ?

Yes thats why i asked here. It would be nice to have a Powershell option for auto generating user reports and auto cleanup options.

In RDM youre able to generate a Duplicate Report via Administration Tab:


But im not able to tell how the duplicate check mechanism is working there, maybe this function can be copied / implemented into dvls (serverside)? It works pretty well and performant. There is also a compare option available.

Best Regards,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for your answer. I looked in RDM, you're right, we can find duplicate based on the entry name or based on connection host and connection type. We could probably have something similar in DVLS, but how important is it for you to have it in PowerShell Module ? Because we could probably find a way to generate a report via PowerShell, but how do you see a cleanup option ? It could be hard to determine which connection should be deleted because you can have duplicate in 2 different folders, but we don't really know which one the system should keep. Is it an operation that you would like to run often and this is why you would like to have that feature in the PowerShell Module ?

Thank you in advance for precision

Best regards,

Hi Francois

It should be possible to declare some detection criterias like:
Match Criterias:

• Name
• Connection
• Group
• Description
• Username
• .....

With some of this criterias i can get all matches for my scenario and every user can build his own filters for duplicate checks.
With the returned Array of Duplicates im able to handle the entries directly in Powershell.

Best Regards
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Great, I understand. Thank you for your suggestion, it will add to our backlog. I can't promise a date, but we will see what we can do.

Best regards,