Update an ASM Policy Template via REST-API - the reverse engineering way

I always want to automate as many tasks as possible. I have already a pipeline to import ASM policy templates. Today I had the demand to update this base policies. Simply overwriting the template wit...
Published Feb 17, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026

Juergen_Mang​  nice article ! If you have 100 policies deployed from a template updating the template will only update new policies that are made from this template right?

I thought I can add an explicit url under the Parent policy and this to be pushed to all child ones but Parent policies do not allow this for some reason.

iRules seem the only way but F5 doesn't seem to have an irule event triggered before the WAF/ASM as for example to stop the body checks based on URL and content-type match that can be attached under all VS for example.