Bug ID 986937: Cannot create child policy when the signature staging setting is not equal in template and parent policy

Last Modified: Feb 07, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.1.0

Fixed In:
17.0.0, 16.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 15.1.4

Opened: Jan 25, 2021

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When trying to create a child policy, you get an error: FAILURE: "Could not update the Policy policy1. Inherited values may not be changed."

Impact

You are unable to create the child policy and the system presents an error.

Conditions

-- Parent policy created with signature staging disabled. -- Creating a new child policy with that policy as a parent.

Workaround

Create the policy without assigning it to the parent, and then assign it to the parent policy on the Inheritance Settings page.

Fix Information

The error no longer occurs on child policy creation.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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