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Nov 09, 2017

Local Traffic Policies Policy List

There are two types of policies shown: 1. [Virtual Server Name] 2. asm_auto_l7_policy_[Virtual Server Name]

 

What is the difference between them?

 

One thing I noted whether you create a policy and assing VS to it or directly assign the VS at the time of creation the asm_auto_l7_policy_[Virtaul Server Name] automatically created.

 

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  • And you have answered your own question, sort of.

     

    When you create an ASM policy and link it directly to a virtual, ASM will automatically create a simple L7 Policy called asm_auto_l7_policy_... that links the ASM policy to the virtual.

     

    However, you can manually create a more complex L7 Policy that makes decisions about whether to apply policy or forward traffic to replace the automatically generated policy to meet your own requirements.