Manual Chapter : About session variables

Applies To:

  • BIG-IP APM

    15.1.8, 15.1.7, 15.1.6, 15.1.5, 15.1.4, 15.1.3, 15.1.2, 15.1.1, 15.1.0

About session variables

An access policy stores the values that actions return in session variables. A session variable contains a number or string that represents a specific piece of information. This information is organized in a hierarchical arrangement and is stored as the user’s session data.

The Current Sessions report in the Access Policy Manager Reports area displays all session variables for a session. Session variables can be useful in access policies to achieve various results, including:

  • Customizing access rules or defining your own access policy rules.
  • Providing different outcomes for policies based on the values in the session variables.
  • Determining which resources to assign to users (with the Resource Assign action).