Bug ID 453265: Monitor Strings do not correctly escape escaped characters

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10

Fixed In:
11.6.0

Opened: Mar 20, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Escape characters are lost between what the user enters for the monitor send string and what the user sees in the config file.

Impact

The specified string is not written to config file.

Conditions

The issue is apparent after saving/updating a monitor save/receive string which uses \ escape characters, the fields repopulate with the 'evaluated' versions of the characters.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Monitor string fields now correctly escape escaped characters.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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