Bug ID 1629465: Configuration synchronization fails when there is large number of user partitions (characters in user partition names exceeds sixty five thousand)

Last Modified: Oct 04, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4

Opened: Aug 19, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Configuration synchronization fails with the below errors, err mcpd[6505]: 01070712:3: Caught configuration exception (0), MCP call 'mcpmsg_set_string_item(msg, CID2TAG(m_cid), val.c_str())' failed with error: 16908375, 01020057:3: The string with more than 65535 characters cannot be stored in a message.. err mcpd[6505]: 01071488:3: Remote transaction for device group /Common/[device group] to commit id [commit id #] [config stamp #] /Common/[hostname] 0 failed with error 01070712:3: Caught configuration exception (0), MCP call 'mcpmsg_set_string_item(msg, CID2TAG(m_cid), val.c_str())' failed with error: 16908375, 01020057:3: The string with more than 65535 characters cannot be stored in a message...

Impact

Configuration synchronization fails.

Conditions

Traffic group with multiple devices and a large amount of user partitions (total character in the user partition names exceeds sixty five thousand)

Workaround

Reduce the number of user partitions and the characters in the partition names, or split the configuration into separate vCMP guests.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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