Bug ID 1331253: GUI does not warn about the influences on entities while turning on PB (from Disabled to Auto/Manual)

Last Modified: Jun 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 16.1.6

Opened: Aug 17, 2023

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

While turning on PB (from Disabled to Auto/Manual), there will be changes automatically made on entities. For instance, the pure wildcard objects will be created if not exist. If exist, attributes on the object would be updated based on Learn flag. These changes would be unexpected from the user's point of view.

Impact

Changes automatically made that user did not expected.

Conditions

Turning on policy builder

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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