ytti/oxidized · error · Oxidized::OxidizedError

Could not generate PanOS API key: #{msg}

Error message

Could not generate PanOS API key: #{msg}

What it means

Error "Could not generate PanOS API key: #{msg}" thrown in ytti/oxidized.

Source

Thrown at lib/oxidized/model/panos_api.rb:39

  # Callback function for getting the configuration file.
  cfg_cb = lambda do
    url_param = URI.encode_www_form(
      user:     @node.auth[:username],
      password: @node.auth[:password],
      type:     'keygen'
    )

    kg_r = get_http "/api?#{url_param}"

    # Parse the XML API response for the keygen request.
    kg_x = Nokogiri::XML(kg_r)

    # Check if keygen was successful. If not we'll throw an error.
    status = kg_x.xpath('//response/@status').first
    if status.to_s != 'success'
      msg = kg_x.xpath('//response/result/msg').text
      raise Oxidized::OxidizedError, "Could not generate PanOS API key: #{msg}"
    end

    # If we reach here, keygen was successful, so get the API key
    # out of the keygen XML response.
    apikey = kg_x.xpath('//response/result/key').text.to_s

    # Now that we have the API key, we can request a configuration
    # export.
    url_param = URI.encode_www_form(
      key:      apikey,
      category: 'configuration',
      type:     'export'
    )

    cfg = get_http "/api?#{url_param}"

    # The configuration export is in XML format. Unfortunately,
    # it's just one long line of XML that's not especially human

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at lib/oxidized/model/panos_api.rb:39 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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