Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1
Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3.6
Opened: Sep 06, 2017 Severity: 2-Critical
APMD process may fail at initialization time with errors similar to the following: -- createAgent - initInstance() failed for agent xxx_saml_auth_ag type (46) -- Exiting due to failure in loading access policy objects
APMD service may become unresponsive, dropping all traffic protected by APM access policies.
-- BIG-IP system is configured as SAML SP. -- Certificate used by configured SAML Agent was imported onto BIG-IP system in DER format.
Convert DER encoded certificate used by SAML SP agent into PEM format.
DER certificate no longer cause APMD process errors at initialization time.