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John_Buchanan_1
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Jan 12, 2016

ASM policy import Error: Malformed XML: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry

When trying to re-import a policy I had exported (I turned off staging for all new signatures using search/replace function of my text editor), I run in to the following error:   Error: Malformed ...
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John_Buchanan
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Jan 18, 2016

I discovered that this was due to parameters defined within my policy with unusual names that were also nearly identical across my two ASM pair. I am once again able to import my policy from pair 1 on pair 2, and vice versa. I'll have to find another way to prevent these unusually named parameters from being flagged as injection attempts.