Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.1.0, 12.0.0 HF3, 11.6.1 HF1
Opened: Oct 12, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
BIG-IP Edge Client restarts executing access policy after lost connectivity is restored. Usually that means Edge client will try to re-authenticate (if access policy is configured so) after lost network connectivity is restored.
User needs to input credentials again.
Edge Client for Mac, APM with access policy with authentication configured.
Access policy can have "Save password" option enabled. In this case Edge Client caches the password based on password caching policy in connectivity profile and will not ask for password if cache is still valid.
Edge Client for Mac now tries to restore session after lost network connectivity is restored.