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I'm just testing the Jamf Pro 10 release in the lab and encounter a problem when deleting multiple computers @ once.

to make things a little more visible I enabled SQL statement logging on JSS.

I intend to delete 10 machines @ once by clicking Action --> Delete Computers.

After pressing "Next" on the choose an Action screen all I get is a waiting circle and after some time the Session is timing out. I do see the CPU for "mysqld" increasing but never recovering how long I even wait, nor does my computer count is decreasing by 10.

Also in the JSS log I can not find a single delete statement showing up..

Deleting Computers 1 by one seems to work. Did anyone else encounter this problem ?

Spruce can also do cleanup of computers (and other things, like policies) fwiw.

JIIINGG YAAAANGGG!

This is resolved in Jamf Pro 10.6 as referenced in the Beta Release Notes.

@scafide thanks for confirming...can't wait for 10.6.1. ;)

I have a post on how I'm doing mass-deletion via the API:

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/using-the-jamf-pro-api-to-mass-delete-computers-and-mobile-devices/

That said, I'm very happy to hear this is fixed in 10.6.x.

@rtrouton thanks, Jamf Support told us Product Issue PI-004957 impacts both GUI and API mass deletion.

Sure, which is why my solution is deleting one ID at a time, which doesn't run afoul of PI-004957.

Hey guys, mine is working but I had to wait about 20minutes for it to process.

@rtrouton ah...I should have RTFB (Read The Fine Blog). :) My apologies, I assumed wrongly. Will test your script today. Thanks!

We ended up taking parts of @rtrouton's script and some other scripts found here on Jamf Nation and tweaking for our needs.

Basically save a report with the computers you want to delete, and with only JSS ID checked, then put it in a folder with our script, and let it rip. After script finishes, run the report again to confirm it shows zero computers.

DISCLAIMER: We hard code the URL to avoid any mistakes, this way we can give a walk through pointing to our QA before running in Production.

#!/bin/bash

currentDir=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )
reportFile="$1"
tempFile="/tmp/tempFile.csv"
inputFile="${currentDir}/inputFile.csv"
jamfproURL="https://server.domain.com:8443"
jamfproIDURL="${jamfproURL}/JSSResource/computers/id"
jamfproURL=${jamfproURL%%/}

# cd to working folder
cd "$currentDir"

# Remove header
sed '1d' "${reportFile}" > ${tempFile}

# Trim list to just JSS ID numbers
cat ${tempFile} | cut -f2 -d"," > ${inputFile}

# Ensure csv has a line return at end of file
if [[ -n "$(tail -c 1 "${inputFile}")" ]]
then
    sed -i '' -e "'$a'" "${inputFile}"
fi

# Prompt for credentials
if [[ -n ${inputFile} && -r ${inputFile} ]]; then

    echo ""
    echo "Enter username:"
    read apiUser

    echo ""
    echo "Enter password:"
    read apiPass
    echo ""

    # Loop through list to remove JSS IDs from JSS
    while read -r ID
    do
        if [[ "$ID" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
            curl -X DELETE "${jamfproIDURL}/$ID" -u ${apiUser}:${apiPass}
        else
            echo "Sorry every line in file needs to be a number!"
        fi
    done < ${inputFile}
else
    # Complain if the list is missing or wrong format.
    echo "Input file is missing or not the right format. Contact Mac Engineering."
    ERROR=1
fi

exit 0

At some point I plan to try to clean up (or simplify) the output of success and error.

Currently here is what you get if you have a list of 3 computers that exist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><computer><id>10100</id></computer><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><computer><id>10101</id></computer><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><computer><id>10102</id></computer>

And here is what you get if you have a list of 3 computers that do not exist:

<html>
<head>
   <title>Status page</title>
</head>
<body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
<p style="font-size: 1.2em;font-weight: bold;margin: 1em 0px;">Not Found</p>
<p>The server has not found anything matching the request URI</p>
<p>You can get technical details <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.5">here</a>.<br>
Please continue your visit at our <a href="/">home page</a>.
</p>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>Status page</title>
</head>
<body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
<p style="font-size: 1.2em;font-weight: bold;margin: 1em 0px;">Not Found</p>
<p>The server has not found anything matching the request URI</p>
<p>You can get technical details <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.5">here</a>.<br>
Please continue your visit at our <a href="/">home page</a>.
</p>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>Status page</title>
</head>
<body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
<p style="font-size: 1.2em;font-weight: bold;margin: 1em 0px;">Not Found</p>
<p>The server has not found anything matching the request URI</p>
<p>You can get technical details <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.5">here</a>.<br>
Please continue your visit at our <a href="/">home page</a>.
</p>
</body>
</html>

HTH,
Don

thanks for the script :)

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