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My Aruba controller has been configured to be accessed via XML API.  I am using a PHP script to get data from the controller via XML API.

I am referring this document to create my xml api request. 

http://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/ArubaOS_63_Web_Help/Content/ArubaFrameStyles/XML_API/Using_the_XML_API_Server.htm

As per the document, I have created my request as follows: ---- But I am getting “504 Gateway timed out” error. Can you please validate my API request and please help me to troubleshoot the issue.

https://<controller-ip/auth/command.xml

$xml='<aruba command="user_query"> <macaddr>xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</macaddr> <key>Key generated while setting up the controller

for XML API</key>

<version>1.0</version> </aruba>';

    // Initialize cURL

                       $curl = curl_init();

                       $url = "https://<controller-ip/auth/command.xml";

                      // set URL and other appropriate options

                       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

                       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml','Authorization: Bearer XML API key generated while setting up XML API));

                       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

                       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);

                       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

                       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

                       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);

                       // This sets the number of fields to post

                       curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_POST, sizeof($xml));

                       // This is the fields to post in the form of an array.

                       curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);

                       //execute the post

                       $result = curl_exec($curl);

                       $info = curl_getinfo($curl);

                       echo curl_getinfo($ch) . '<br/>';

echo curl_errno($curl) . '<br/>';

echo curl_error($curl) . '<br/>';

                       curl_close($curl);

Did you already configure the controller with the XML-API server and then assign it to a AAA profile?

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, I have already configured the xml api and assigned to aaa profile.

Have figured out issue and now the curl request is executing. but now, I am getting 

"invalid message digest" error. 

When I refer to the doc, it says - 

<aruba>

  <status>Error</status>

  <code>7</code>

  <reason>invalid message digest</reason>

</aruba>

I am able to figure out the issue with the key. When I replace the authentication method to “Cleartext”, I was able to get rid of the key error. And the API request works fine.

But when I query the API from our application for random user, I don’t know the user’s IP address, So I  should be able to query the API just only with MAC address.  As per the document, I  understand that the IP address is mandatory for all API request. 

When I  run the API request without IP address, I am  receiving the following error message.:

<aruba>

  <status>Error</status>

  <code>1</code>

  <reason>unknown user</reason>

</aruba>

Can you please help me to figure out some solution to this? Getting API working by just passing MAC address, key, authentication, and version.