dcoghlan
commented
3 years ago You have 2 non printing ASCII characters (technically they are ASCII control codes SOH and ENQ) somewhere in your configuration. Typically this will be in the name, description or any other field that a user has been able to type into. Where I have seen this type of stuff before is when people copy and paste text from another document into the fields.
Tracking down the field where this is present will be a bit more tricky. It would often mean taking the raw API output (using something like Postman) and putting it into some sort of text editor that will show you non-ascii printing characters.
The reason PowerNSX is throwing an error is due to the fact that as part of the Invoke-NsxRestMethod, we pass the XML response through Format-XML to write the XML response into the debug logs in a format that is easy to read. Format-XML uses XmlWriterwhich has a data conformance setting for CheckCharacters which defaults to true. This data conformance check validates that all characters are within the legal range for a XML document as defined by the W3C.
As a workaround, you could try the following steps to see if it resolves your issue
- First find the location of your PowerNNSX module installation
Get-Module PowerNSX -ListAvailable | Select-Object path
- Open the module file and find the following line
$XmlSettings.ConformanceLevel = "fragment"
- Add the following line immediatley after the line above
$XmlSettings.CheckCharacters = $False
- Save the module file
- unload the module
Get-Module PowerNSX | Remove-Module
- Load the modified module
Import-Module PowerNSX
- Test and see if it has made any difference
MartinEtcheverry
when i run a simple get-nsxedge i get this error:
$edges = get-nsxedge MethodInvocationException: C:\Users\someuser\Documents\PowerShell\Modules\PowerNSX\3.0.1174\PowerNSX.psm1:3615 Line | 3615 | $_xml.WriteContentTo($XmlWriter) |
~~~~~~~~ | Exception calling "WriteContentTo" with "1" argument(s): "'☺', hexadecimal value 0x01, is an invalid character." MethodInvocationException: C:\Users\someuser\Documents\PowerShell\Modules\PowerNSX\3.0.1174\PowerNSX.psm1:3615 Line | 3615 | $_xml.WriteContentTo($XmlWriter) |~~~~~~~~ | Exception calling "WriteContentTo" with "1" argument(s): "'♣', hexadecimal value 0x05, is an invalid character."Any hint , anybody?