Bug ID 536623: Upon XML policy export, there is no indication of a malformed resulting XML policy

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: Jul 30, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When exporting an XML policy, if the resulting policy is malformed - there is no indication of that in GUI/REST/TMSH

Impact

There is no error indicating that the exported XML policy is malformed

Conditions

ASM provisioned The exported XML policy is malformed

Workaround

Try to import the XML policy that was exported, if it is malformed it will fail with an appropriate error

Fix Information

We now validate the exported XML policy right after export and propagate an appropriate error in case it is malformed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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