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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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jackbarry
New Contributor
4 years ago

I'm hitting this issue as well, but I'm not seeing a "continuation token" in the response. The only data in the response I get back is the a report object with token and expires (same token as was used to fetch the report), and the hosts object with an array of 50 hosts. I don't see anything in the headers either

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    a_Person1
    Active Contributor
    4 years ago

    forgot to say, in a loop that check for null token with sleep of 60s between requests.....1000 machines took about 24 mins....eurgh

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      jackbarry
      New Contributor
      4 years ago

      Thanks for the pointer, didn't realize that "token" in the response was the indicator that there's more data if you do another GET request with the same token.

       

      Yeah I hear ya, we have several thousand machines in the field, so the request rate limit is really tough to work around. What I'm trying to do is cache the data for a single report on all machines to avoid hitting the report generation endpoint too often, but ideally would just be able to create smaller reports more frequently based on host IDs. I guess maybe what we'll have to do is set up a queue instead and have it wait 60s between generating each report, hopefully people are alright with waiting a long time for  their reports...

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    a_Person1
    Active Contributor
    4 years ago

    Hey 

     

    I just revisited this myself in the last week,

     

    The token is returned in the response, but it the same token as the one generated creating the report, I've not a great programmer but I just put the API call in a loop and check that token was not returned "null" and it works

    Hope that helps