Bug ID 554081: Invalid excluded content type in response analytics agent might restart tmm and produce core

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: Oct 23, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If the analytics excluded content type is invalid value, TMM might crash.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

Analytics excluded content type list is not valid. The valid values are All-Compressed, All-Images, All-Executable, Application-Flash, Text-html, Text-pdf.

Workaround

Avoid adding the invalid excluded content type.

Fix Information

The right validation is added. The configurations that has invalid excluded content type could make the configuration fail with this error message: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Response Analytics agent /Common/prp1_act_response_analytics_ag needs a valid content type. Provided content type /Common/invalid is not valid. Please go and edit bigip.conf to include the valid values such as All-Compressed, All-Images, All-Executable, Application-Flash, Text-html, Text-pdf

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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