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bdavis's avatar
bdavis
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Dec 11, 2015

APM Session Variables fail to update in cache

I thought maybe someone can help me understand this. I have a Access Policy that contains a macro loop. Inside the macro there is a event id called in an irule that sets a session variable for exampl...
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Seth_Cooper
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Dec 11, 2015

Hi Brett,

 

You are running into a known issue. It is being tracked with ID 420284 and will be fixed in the next major release. There is no easy workaround for this.

 

Basically once APD gets the variable from memcache (iRule) then it caches the value and will not go back to memcache during that same session.

 

In the past I have seen where people use a counter loop and other logic in the iRule and VPE to make this work.

 

-Seth