Troubleshooting Tip: Unable to set the persistence option under virtual-server when NGFW policy-mode is enabled

[lcamilo]

Description	This article describes why the option to set 'persistence' is not displayed in the GUI or CLI under the virtual-server configuration when the NGFW mode is set to policy-mode.  config system settings     set ngfw-mode policy-based end config firewall VIP     edit "virtual_server_001"         set type server-load-balance         set server-type HTTP         set extip 172.16.50.10         set extintf "port1"         set ldb-method least-session         set extport 80         config realservers               edit 1                     set ip 192.168.13.10                     set port 80               next         end     end end FG-760-GA # config firewall vip FG-760-GA (vip) # edit virtual_server_001 FG-760-GA (virtual_server_001) # set persistence command parse error before 'persistence' Command fail. Return code -61
Scope	FortiGate.
Solution	This is a limitation when using NGFW set in policy-mode. The option is available when using NGFW in profile-based mode. Configure the below commands to set profile-based. When the NGFW set to profile-based the application and web-filtering are configured using a profile applied to policy entries.