Bug ID 2326237: Config Fails To Load On Newly Promoted Viprion Blade Due To AFM Policy Referencing An iRule

Last Modified: Jul 10, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AFM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2, 17.1.3, 17.1.3.1, 17.1.3.2

Opened: Jun 08, 2026

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

01070830:3: The iRule (Ex: Test_rule) cannot be deleted because it is in use by a fw_rule (rule1) in Policy(Ex:fw_policy)

Impact

After a failover, the newly elected blade is in an inoperative state

Conditions

Cluster setup: On Primary: rm -rf /var/db/mcp* bigstart restart mcpd; sleep 1; tmsh load sys config partitions all base

Workaround

tmsh load sys config partitions all (without base) or tmsh load sys config

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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