Bug ID 752167: Transform rules fail to push if the post data too large for webd on the DCD

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Fraud Protection Service (FPS)(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
5.4.0 HF1, 5.0.0 HF1, 5.4.0 HF2, 5.4.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1.1, 6.0.1.2, 6.1.0

Opened: Dec 06, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

BIG-IQ fails to push transform rules if the post data is too large for webd on the DCD and returns an error similar to: "Failed to push alert rules to device 1.1.1.1: java.net.ProtocolException: status:413, body:<html...>"

Impact

The DCD devices do not apply transform rules. Due to this issue, transform rules are not being synced to the DCDs.

Conditions

The issue occurs when overall data of the transform rules exceed 16MB.

Workaround

To work around this issue, edit /etc/webd/webd.conf to set client_max_body_size 128M and restart webd by running the 'bigstart restart webd' command.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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