Bug ID 863609: Unexpected differences in child policies when using BIG-IQ to change learning mode on parent policies

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.0.5, 14.1.2.7

Opened: Dec 19, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After changing a parent policy's learning mode or other learning attributes in policy-builder settings, deploying the policy will result in differences in the child policies.

Impact

There are differences after deploy.

Conditions

On BIG-IP and BIG-IQ: 1. Parent policy has a policy-building section that is inherited. 2. Child policy has wildcard default (*) elements such as urls. On BIG-IQ: 3. Change parent learning mode from manual to disabled or vice versa 4. Deploy changes

Workaround

Discover and deploy again from BIG-IQ

Fix Information

Changes are deployed from BIG-IQ without causing unexpected changes.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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