diff --git a/docker/couchdb/check_couchdb.py b/docker/couchdb/check_couchdb.py
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--- a/docker/couchdb/check_couchdb.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-"""
-Script meant to be used in the CouchDB VM migration, providing commands that need to
-be executed in the backend VMs.
-"""
-import os
-import sys
-import socket
-import requests
-from itertools import chain
-
-db_map = [{"src_node": "vocms0841", "target_node": "vocms0846", "db_names": ["workqueue", "workqueue_inbox"]},
-          {"src_node": "vocms0842", "target_node": "vocms0847", "db_names": ["reqmgr_workload_cache", "reqmgr_config_cache",
-                                                                             "acdcserver", "reqmgr_auxiliary"]}, 
-          {"src_node": "vocms0843", "target_node": "vocms0848", "db_names": ["wmstats", "wmstats_logdb", "workloadsummary"]},
-          {"src_node": "vocms0844", "target_node": "vocms0849", "db_names": ["tier0_wmstats", "t0_workloadsummary",
-                                                                             "t0_request", "t0_logdb"]}]
-
-if len(sys.argv) != 3:
-    print(f"You need to provide a source and destination directory for the database shards.")
-    print(f"Example: python3 check_couchdb.py /data/srv/couch_bkp_vocms0841/shards /data/srv/state/couchdb/database/shards")
-    sys.exit(1)
-
-src_dir = sys.argv[1]
-dest_dir = sys.argv[2]
-print(f"Meant to copy files from {src_dir} to {dest_dir}\n")
-
-this_node = socket.gethostname()
-all_dbs = []
-for item in db_map:
-    if item["target_node"] in this_node:
-        these_db = item["db_names"]
-    all_dbs.extend([db_name for db_name in item["db_names"]])
-print(f"Running on node: {socket.gethostname()}, responsible for databases: {these_db}")
-
-print(f"\n***** Summary of databases ****")
-for db_name in all_dbs:
-    resp = requests.get(f'http://localhost:5984/{db_name}')
-    if resp.status_code >= 400:
-        print(f"Request failed with status code: {resp.status_code}")
-    else:
-        data = {}
-        for kname, kdata in resp.json().items():
-            if kname in ["db_name", "doc_count", "doc_del_count", "sizes"]:
-                data[kname] = kdata
-        print(data)
-
-print(f"\n***** Databases to be overwritten ****")
-print(f"The following databases will need to be overwritten: {these_db}.\nPlease run these commands:")
-for shard_dir in os.listdir(dest_dir):
-    src_dir_shard = os.path.join(src_dir, shard_dir)
-    src_dir_content = os.listdir(src_dir_shard)
-    #print(f"Content of source directory {src_dir_shard}: {src_dir_content}")
-    dest_dir_shard = os.path.join(dest_dir, shard_dir)
-    dest_dir_content = os.listdir(dest_dir_shard)
-    #print(f"Content of destination directory {dest_dir_shard}: {dest_dir_content}")
-    for db_name in these_db:
-        for src_db in src_dir_content:
-            if db_name == src_db.split(".")[0]:
-                break
-        for dest_db in dest_dir_content:
-            if db_name == dest_db.split(".")[0]:
-                break
-        print(f"cp {os.path.join(src_dir_shard, src_db)} {os.path.join(dest_dir_shard, dest_db)}")