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RE: Odd truncation in UCS API?

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I am using the perl module Cisco::UCS to communicate with a UCS blade center version 2.0(2q).
I was running into trouble, and when I finally got down to debugging it I found that all the API responses I were receiving from the UCS were being truncated at 65536 characters/bytes.

It is a usual HTTPS transaction. The query returns as a valid HTTP response (200) and all other interactions are the same. There just seems to be a hard size limit on the XML response.
I've verified there are no network firewalls or such between me and the UCS.
When I run the same script on the current UCS emulator (version 2.0(3c)), I do not have this issue.
Has anyone seen this or do they have suggestions?

Looks to be a bug with the Perl module you are using.  I have had responses of much larger XML responses than that doing direct calls w/ tools like curl.  Perform a configResolveClass w/ inHierarchical set to true on class "topSystem" on a UCS domain, and you will get the entire XML database returned.  It can be a few MB of data, and I have never had issues getting truncation before.  

I suspected the same and dug all the way back to using LWP directly. I'd be really surprised with that being distrbuted with a truncation error, but you never know.

Do you have a sample of that curl to "grab all" that you talk about? That'll help me figure out of this bug is the module or not.
 

 
Here you go.  First you need to login and get yoru cookie via the API with the curl commands below (which assumes HTTP communication):
$ cat aaa.sh 
#!/bin/bash
curl -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -N -s -d "<aaaLogin inName="admin" inPassword="abc123" />" http://1.2.3.4/nuova
$ ./aaa.sh
 <aaaLogin cookie="" response="yes" outCookie="1354316387/74eed11a-35d2-48a1-b569-f75c25ed1482" outRefreshPeriod="600" outPriv="admin,read-only" outDomains="org-root" outChannel="noencssl" outEvtChannel="noencssl" outSessionId="" outVersion="2.1(1a)"> </aaaLogin>
 
Then take the cookie and use it with the following script as illustrated below:
$ cat topsys.sh 
#!/bin/bash
COOKIE=$1
curl -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -N -s -d '<configResolveClass cookie="$COOKIE" classId="topSystem" inHierarchical="true" />' http://1.2.3.4/nuova
 
$ ./topsys.sh "1354316387/74eed11a-35d2-48a1-b569-f75c25ed1482" > topsys.out
As you can see the file I was returned was 1.9 MB:
$ ls -alh topsys.out 
-rw-r--r--  1 ericwill  staff   1.9M Dec  5 12:56 topsys.out
 
 

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