Thank you so much @Terry Hooper and @Helge Brust . That seems to have resolved my issue. Didnt know this feature existed, the appending to expression did seem redundant. For the community heres what it looks like on the CLI: 1. create pattern set # add policy patset <pattern_name> add policy patset pattern_svc 2. bind policy to pattern set # bind policy patset <pattern_name> <hostname> -index <index_value> -charset ASCII bind policy patset pattern_svc fedoramagazine.org -index 1 -charset ASCII 3. your content switching policy # add cs policy <cs_policy> -rule "HTTP.REQ.HOSTNAME.EQUALS_ANY("<pattern_name>")" -action <action_name> add cs policy cs_svc_pol -rule "HTTP.REQ.HOSTNAME.EQUALS_ANY("pattern_svc")" -action cs_svc_act 4. create a corresponding action # add cs action <action_name> -targetLBVserver <target_lb_vserver> add cs action cs_svc_act -targetLBVserver lb_svc_ssl ------------------------------------------------- Also, if you have a file with the hostnames, here a quick and dirty script to generate the command, so you can run it on the CLI: (Attached)