I was checking if templates exist on switches and if they are compliant to the standard. I was planning to do this with the Compliance Policy tool within Cisco Prime.
I didn't check separately if templates exist, i thought that using the "block start expression" was enough to check if it exist and continue in the next rule to check for specific configurations. The problem is that when the specific template does not exist, it just doesn't throw any error's and returns with a success.
My start rules start the following way:
Condition Scope Details: Device Command Outputs - Show run
Block Options: Block Start Expression - ^template WORKSTATION_INTERFACE_TEMPLATE
Condition Match Criteria: Matches the expression - ^template WORKSTATION_INTERFACE_TEMPLATE
Select Match Action: Continue
Select Does not Match Action: Raise violation
When a template does exist the rest of the underlying "Conditions & actions" are performed and check inconsistencies, but when a template is not present it doesn't trigger any of the "conditions & actions"
I performed this with Cisco Prime v3.7. on a C3560 with the newest firmware.
Is this intentional?
