Bug ID 434943: Copying policy can result in and fail because of duplicated names

Last Modified: Jul 25, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.5.0, 11.4.1 HF2, 11.4.0 HF6, 11.3.0 HF9

Opened: Oct 22, 2013

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If copying policy with name longer than 70 characters it could end up in failed policy with duplicated name

Impact

Serious. This may prevent loading and importing saved configuration

Conditions

1. New name is longer than ~70 characters 2. Lot of similar objects in policy or macro

Workaround

Use shorter names. If configuration already exists, it's possbile to fix via editing bigip.conf (though this is not advised): 1. Find agent and make a copy with different name 2. Find access policy items that are sharing the same agent 3. Modify access policy item to point to newly created agent

Fix Information

Name resolution is fixed

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips