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J_Aldrich
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Aug 03, 2021

iRule Help. How do I add a 20 second time delay before log message runs?

Hello,   I am trying to create a log message whether or not a user was allowed or denied by the access policy. When I run the code, it always returns a log message with "not started" rather than...
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crodriguez
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Aug 05, 2021

I'm not an APM expert but you should be able to use a logging profile that publishes to one or more high-speed logging destinations, as you need. You can customize what gets logged. Have you checked out the BIG-IP APM manuals on AskF5, specifically on Logging and Reporting? Here's a link to the one for BIG-IP v15.1. (Other releases have their own manuals.)

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    J_Aldrich
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    Aug 06, 2021

    Thanks for your help . Turns out I needed to use "when ACCESS_POLICY_COMPLETED" instead of "when ACCESS_POLICY_STARTED". Then everything worked as it should.