One thing I’ve noticed when working with the pycontrol v2 libraries is that if you don’t set up your BIGIP object with correct username/password credentials, two things happen:
1. There is a timeout of almost three and a half minutes before any response is registered.
2. The returned error is not the documented Common::AccessDenied exception. Consider the following code:
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import pycontrol.pycontrol as pc
user = ‘cwoodfield’
passwd = ‘incorrect_passwd’
lb = ‘lb_hostname’
b = pc.BIGIP(hostname = lb, username = user, password = passwd,
fromurl = True, wsdls = [‘LocalLB.Pool’])
try:
list = b.LocalLB.Pool.get_list()
print list
except Exception, e:
print e
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When I run this with “time” I get:
$ time python2.6 test_failed_login.py
maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object
real3m28.308s
user0m1.002s
sys0m0.074s
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Is this a known issue? Are there any additional parameters I can set to reduce the timeout here? Thanks!