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

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

Bug Tracker

Affected Product:  See more info
BIG-IP ASM, BIG-IQ(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4

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