For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

Daniel_Nor_3373's avatar
Daniel_Nor_3373
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Oct 13, 2017
Solved

Importing and exporting the same policy via python leads to differences in the policy

Hello,   I am currently looking to import multiple policies automatically. Therefore, I wrote a script using the python SDK to accomplish this. To make sure the import works fine, I checked for a ...
ASM Advanced WAF
BIG-IP
devops
security
  • Romani_2788's avatar
    Romani_2788
    Oct 27, 2017

    If the ASM device you are importing the policies too have a newer attack signature update than the system you pulled the ASM policies from, then it is possible that newer attack signatures have been added to the signature sets that you have applied to those policies and that will account for the difference in attack signatures between the two copies of the same policies.

     

Romani_2788's avatar
Romani_2788
Historic F5 Account
Oct 27, 2017

If the ASM device you are importing the policies too have a newer attack signature update than the system you pulled the ASM policies from, then it is possible that newer attack signatures have been added to the signature sets that you have applied to those policies and that will account for the difference in attack signatures between the two copies of the same policies.