F5 SDK LTM Policy Listing

The GUI rule creator and viewer has those descriptions built into it based on the syntax of the rules, rather than creating the descriptions ad-hoc.

For example, I define this in the GUI:

Then, checking /var/log/audit, I can see exactly what happened when I clicked "save":

Jan 2 13:37:31 west.lab.local notice icrd_child[19130]: 01420002:5: AUDIT - pid=19130 user=admin folder=/Common module=(tmos)# status=[Command OK transaction submitted] cmd_data=modify ltm policy /Common/Drafts/mypolicyname { rules add { myinnerpolicyname { description myinnerpolicydescription ordinal 0 conditions add { 0 { datagroup /Common/sys_APM_MS_Office_OFBA_DG case-insensitive client-ssl protocol equals proxy-connect } } actions add { 0 { write log proxy-response facility local0 priority info message "Sally sells seashells by the seashore" } } } } }

Here I was modifying the policy rather than creating it but the "modify" and "create" commands use the same parameters.

This is what this policy looks like in the GUI.

So, when you create those rules the GUI should automatically describe them accurately. No extra parameters are necessary.