ica-policy

Last published : Oct 30, 2026
The following operations can be performed on "ica-policy":
rm| rename| show| stat| set| add| unset|

rm ica policy

This command removes an ICA policy

Synopsis

rm ica policy <name>

Arguments

name Name of the policy to be removed.

Example

rm ica policy ica_policy_1

rename ica policy

This command renames an ICA policy.

Synopsis

rename ica policy <name>@ <newName>@

Arguments

name Existing name of the policy.
newName New name for the policy. Must begin with an ASCII alphabetic or underscore (_)character, and must contain only ASCII alphanumeric, underscore, hash (#), period (.), s pace, colon (:), at (@), equals (=), and hyphen (-) characters.
The following requirement applies only to the Citrix ADC CLI:
If the name includes one or more spaces, enclose the name in double or single quotation marks (for example, "my ica policy" or 'my ica policy').

Example

rename ica policy old_name new_name

show ica policy

This command displays information about all configured ICA policies, or detailed information about the specified policy.

Synopsis

show ica policy show ica policy stats - alias for 'stat ica policy'

Arguments

name Name of the policy about which to display detailed information.

Output

stateflag rule Expression to be used by ICA policy.
action ICA profile (action) associated with the policy.
hits Number of hits.
undefHits Number of policy UNDEF hits.
activePolicy Indicates whether policy is bound or not.
comment Any type of information about this ICA policy.
logAction Name of the messagelog action to use for requests that match this policy.
gotoPriorityExpression Expression specifying the priority of the next policy which will get evaluated if the current policy rule evaluates to TRUE.
boundTo Location where policy is bound.
priority Specifies the priority of the policy.
bindPolicyType vserverType builtin Indicates that the ICA policy is a built-in (SYSTEM INTERNAL) type.
type devno count

Example

show ica policy

stat ica policy

Displays statistics for the specified ICA policy. If no policy name is specified, displays abbreviated statistics for all ICA policies currently configured on the Citrix ADC.

Synopsis

stat ica policy

Arguments

name Name of the ica policy.
detail Specifies detailed output (including more statistics). The output can be quite voluminous. Without this argument, the output will show only a summary.
fullValues Specifies that numbers and strings should be displayed in their full form. Without this option, long strings are shortened and large numbers are abbreviated
ntimes The number of times, in intervals of seven seconds, the statistics should be displayed. Default value: 1 Minimum value: 0
logFile The name of the log file to be used as input.
clearstats Clear the statsistics / counters
Possible values: basic, full

Output

count devno stateflag

Counters

Policy hits (Hits) Number of hits on the policy
Policy undef hits (Undefhits) Number of undef hits on the policy

Example

stat ica policy

set ica policy

This command modifies the parameters like rule, action , comment etc for an existing ICA policy.

Synopsis

set ica policy <name>

Arguments

name Name of the policy to modify.
rule Expression or other value against which the traffic is evaluated. Must be a Boolean expression.
The following requirements apply only to the Citrix ADC CLI:
  • If the expression includes one or more spaces, enclose the entire expression in double quotation marks.
  • If the expression itself includes double quotation marks, escape the quotations by using the \ character.
  • Alternatively, you can use single quotation marks to enclose the rule, in which case you do not have to escape the double quotation marks.
action Name of the ica action to be associated with this policy.
comment Any type of information about this ICA policy.
logAction Name of the messagelog action to use for requests that match this policy.

Example

set ica policy ica_policy -rule <rule>

add ica policy

This command adds an ICA policy. The policy specifies the rule, on which the traffic is evaluated, and the action to be taken if the rule returns "TRUE".

Synopsis

add ica policy <name> -rule <expression> -action <string>

Arguments

name Name for the policy. Must begin with an ASCII alphabetic or underscore (_) character, and must contain only ASCII alphanumeric, underscore, hash (#), period (.), space, colon (:), at (@), equals (=), and hyphen (-) characters.
The following requirement applies only to the Citrix ADC CLI: If the name includes one or more spaces, enclose the name in double or single quotation marks (for example, "my ica policy" or 'my ica policy').
rule Expression or other value against which the traffic is evaluated. Must be a Boolean expression.
The following requirements apply only to the Citrix ADC CLI:
  • If the expression includes one or more spaces, enclose the entire expression in double quotation marks.
  • If the expression itself includes double quotation marks, escape the quotations by using the \ character.
  • Alternatively, you can use single quotation marks to enclose the rule, in which case you do not have to escape the double quotation marks.
action Name of the ica action to be associated with this policy.
comment Any type of information about this ICA policy.
logAction Name of the messagelog action to use for requests that match this policy.

Example

add ica policy <name> -rule <expression> -action <string> , where the action is the ica action name

unset ica policy

Use this command to remove ica policy settings.Refer to the set ica policy command for meanings of the arguments.

Synopsis

unset ica policy <name>