Smarts NCM: Autodiscovery Scheduling via API returns 'limit of 255' characters error

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


When scheduling an AutoDiscovery job with data in the "Data Fields" service_properties field is exceeding 255 characters, users will experience the following error below:

2018-07-13 16:45:41,975 [ERROR][gsoa.rim.voyence.util.AutoDiscovery][scheduleJob] Exception occurred for scheduleJob: com.powerup.configmgr.common.api.InvalidDataException: The supplied data is not valid: Data Field Value is exceeded the limit of 255 characters Detailed error description message = null
AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: com.powerup.configmgr.common.api.InvalidDataException: The supplied data is not valid: Data Field Value is exceeded the limit of 255 characters

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - NCM

Resolution

This is currently a limitation of the code and is not supported. An enhancement request has been created and is expected to be release in a future patch.