33.6.2 Common Configuration Problems That Prevent a Policy from Being Applied as Expected

When you try to determine what is functioning incorrectly in a policy, you need to turn on policy tracing and understand the evaluation traces. See the following:

The CO entry line of a policy trace identifies when a policy condition evaluates to False or True. The PA entry line indicates whether the Action was applied or ignored. If the results of the policy trace are not what you expected for the user, the next step is to determine why the policy isn’t behaving the way you want it to. Check for the following problems: