topic Re: web api rest is not always working ... in API / CLI Discussion

web api rest is not always working ...

yossi_Gross — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 04:29:56 GMT

hi i use the rest web api using php

mostly when i am using the add access rule , the action does not succeed

i just need to refresh the page few times , sometimes 5 times the action complete successfully

can someone help with the reason for that ?

Re: web api rest is not always working ...

yossi_Gross — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 04:32:36 GMT

the code i use

$curl = curl_init();
$url = $this->checkPointMgmntServer.$Name;
showMsg('running function: ',$Name,'');
showMsg('running json: ',$json,'');
#echo $this->cpSid;
$ch = curl_init(); // initialize curl handle
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); // set url to post to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "abc:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);// allow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // times out after 4s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0); // set POST method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
# curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS , FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Accept: application/json',
'x-chkp-sid: '.$this->cpSid

));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json); // add POST fields
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json;"));
try {
$result = curl_exec($ch);
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
print_r($e);
}
$trimed = json_decode($result, true);

return $result ;

}

Re: web api rest is not always working ...

PhoneBoy — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 05:14:26 GMT

On what hardware (CPU type, number of cores, RAM) is the R80.x Management running on?

Also, what exact version of code?

Also, what API call exactly are you making with this code?

Re: web api rest is not always working ...

yossi_Gross — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 06:21:59 GMT

the machine is a vm and all functions working but the add access rule

that succeed only once in 5 to 10 refresh of same code

Re: web api rest is not always working ...

yossi_Gross — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 07:31:49 GMT

just to clarify

i use same function to do a lot of action like adding time object adding host etc

on all of them it runs on first time smoothly

only when i am runnig the add access rule it fails and after some trials it is at the end succeed

that means the json i am passing to function is ok....

but still somthing causing it to fail

Re: web api rest is not always working ...

PhoneBoy — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:13:14 GMT

This could easily be the result of an underpowered management server, which is why I asked the questions I did.

Please review my questions again and provide answers.

In the case of a VM, please tell me what ram/CPU has been allocated to it,

You also set the timeout really low (10 seconds)—you might try a higher timeout.

Re: web api rest is not always working ...

yossi_Gross — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:17:29 GMT

vm with 24 gig memory 12 cpu cores i changed the 10 seconds to 120 sec

no special results

thanks for your response

Re: web api rest is not always working ...

Kaspars_Zibarts — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:00:50 GMT

Make sure you run latest jumbo fix on your management, at least higher than 142 as there have been multiple fixes for API. Also for larger rule and objects bases switch API java to 64 bit and increase default memory heap

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/9495-api-dying-on-mds-take-142-every-few-days