Bug ID 916881: Deploying an Access policy containing orphaned policy items fails

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Access(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
7.1.0

Fixed In:
7.1.0.1

Opened: Jun 12, 2020

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

Deploying an Access policy containing orphaned policy items to a BIG-IP device might fail with the following error: "Critical Error: The access policy ("access-policy") has an item ("orphaned-policy-item") which is not referenced by any policy rule."

Impact

You cannot deploy access policies with orphaned policy items.

Conditions

This error can happen if you: 1) Create an Access policy with a branch rule such as "URL Branching". 2) Add another item to that branch. 3) Delete the branch rule in "URL Branching". 4) Deploy the Access policy to a BIG-IP device.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

This issue is now fixed and you can now deploy Access policies with orphaned objects.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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