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a_person
New Contributor
6 years ago

Central API System Inventory Limit?

Hey   Currently working with API without any real issues using python, however;   when posting a new inventory report and passing a list of 349 hosts , the result returns only 50. adjusted by va...
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AshC
Retired GoTo Contributor
6 years ago

Hi, sorry for any confusion there.

It is true that 50 is the current maximum return value, and a continuation token is also returned.  We should have this part updated in the API documents very soon.

 

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a_person
New Contributor
6 years ago

Thanks for the response

 

what is the purpose of the continuation token?

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    AshC
    Retired GoTo Contributor
    6 years ago

    It’s to assure we don’t potentially dump back several thousand lines in the result that could exceed timeouts on the response or flood the receiving code.