Bug ID 1926885: [APM] URL DB mismatch error for Religion categories in the upgrade

Last Modified: Jun 07, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM, Install/Upgrade(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
17.5.0

Opened: Apr 14, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Error messages in /var/log/apm "The requested URL Category (/Common/Lesser-Known_Religions) was not found." "The requested URL Category (/Common/Widely-Known_Religions) was not found."

Impact

Upgrades fails with below error: There were warnings: Category name changed from /Common/Lesser_Known_Religions to in allowed categories of url filter /Common/test_filter Category name changed from /Common/Widely_Known_Religions to in allowed categories of url filter /Common/test_filter Compliance '/Common/gtp_unknown_tunnel_id' is deprecated and removed from '/Common/protocol_inspection'. Compliance '/Common/smtp_command_length_overflow' is deprecated and removed from '/Common/protocol_inspection'. 01070734:3: Configuration error: In url-filter (/Common/<filter>), allowed-category () does not exist. In url-filter (/Common/<filter>), allowed-category () does not exist. Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed.

Conditions

APM provisions and SWG database downloads enabled.

Workaround

Edit the respective categories before upgrading to the latest version. 1. Edit bigip.conf 2. Look for the respective failure filter name and change the Lesser_Known_Religions to Lesser-Known_Religions and Widely_Known_Religions to Widely-Known_Religions 3. Save the file 4. Update the configuration using tmsh save/load sys config

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips