Unable to Commit after Cancel/ Management Server Stuck in Palo Alto

Clearing commits is often an overlooked feature but can be very useful at times.  Imagine you want to add an additional change but already scheduled a commit. You can easily cancel the commit, add your change and re-commit, preventing you from doing unnecessary commits.  Or imagine that a commit hangs for whatever reason (not that it ever happens) and you would like to abort/flush it.

Note: Even Sometime Clearing job from CLI and cancelling the commit doesn’t works. In that case we can restart our management server. Generally, This type of issues appeared when we cancelled the ongoing commit in Palo Alto

If there are any jobs that appear to be hung or stuck in a PEND (Pending) status, and need to be cleared or aborted, you can use the following CLI command:

> debug software restart process management-server

Note: Restarting Management-server doesn’t affects in Data Plane in Palo Alto

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