system-cli gives xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed error

ana_sgr_1985 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:08:46 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am in peculiar situation where after migration of host from (change of IP), I want to flush the nblade access from the node/vserver for specific host and policy via automation:

I am trying to do that in using system-cli because there is no API available for this task ( in my knowledge, correct me if I am wrong here).

Here is my input NaElement:

<system-cli>

<priv>diagnostic</priv>

<args>

<arg>nblade</arg>

<arg>access-cache</arg>

<arg>flush</arg>

<arg>vserver</arg>

<arg>myVserver</arg>

<arg>myNode</arg>

<arg>address</arg>

<arg>myHostIPAddress</arg>

<arg>policy</arg>

<arg>myPolicy</arg>

</args>

</system-cli>

It errors out like this:

p.Parse(xmlresponse, 1)

xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 5, column 0

It seems that line in xml input "<arg>access-cache</arg>" is not getting parsed. If I remove this line, API call goes through but obviously, I get command not found type output.

Is there a workaround for this?

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

Anand

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