ERROR: 413 "Request Entity Too Large" (Net::HTTPServerException)

[lhasadreams]

Running the Windows 2016 CIS profile causes this error when the Compliance report size is over 1MByte. It returns 1.05Mbytes.

Upon investigation the default size limit set on the Chef Server is 1MByte.

I fixed the issue by adding:
opscode_erchef['max_request_size'] = "2000000"
to /etc/opscode/chef-server.rb and running chef-server-ctl reconfigure

Not sure if that is a sensible default, perhaps it should be exposed and a setup parameter.

Cheers
Adrian