The Lazy Networker

Its frustrating it can be when a Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) deployment gets stuck and keeps showing up in notifications. Let’s sort it out this issue:

1. Deleting a Stuck Deployment Notification:
   • To remove a stuck deployment notification, follow these steps:
     1. Log in to the Firepower Management Center (FMC).
2. Switch to the root user:
   • expert
   • sudo su –
3. Use the OmniQuery.pl tool to query the database and find the running tasks:
   • OmniQuery.pl -db mdb -e “select status, category, hex(uuid), body from notification;” | grep ” \ 7\ “
4. Identify the UUID of the running task.
5. Delete the deployment notification using one of the following commands:
   • OmniQuery.pl -db mdb -e “delete from notification where uuid=unhex(‘YOUR_UUID_HERE’);”
6. The notification should clear out after a 5-minute health check or can be manually cleared from the Health