Clear a Commit in PAN OS 7.0.5-h2?

[OMatlock]

Hi folks,

Trying to figure out if there is a way to clear a Commit in PAN OS 7.0.5-h2?

I see there is mention of it in the PAN OS 7.1 New Features guide.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/71/pan-os/newfeaturesguide/management-features/commit...

Just to confirm, this means you can't clear a commit until upgrading PAN OS to at least 7.1?

[bradk14]

is that specifically what you are trying to do? cancel a commit job being queued? if so, yes, 7.1. prior to that, you couldn't commit when a commit was already in progress, it would just error out.

if you are trying to revert changes to the candidate config that have not yet been committed to the running config, you can do that through device -> operations -> revert to running config.

[kiwi · Accepted solution]

Hi @OMatlock,

The commit queue is a new feature in 7.1.

So yes, clearing the commit queue was added since 7.1.

Note that before 7.1 you could also clear a running commit job (depending at what stage it was) but this is certainly NOT recommended as this could break stuff and things.

Look up the job-ID and clear the job-ID with the CLI command 'clear job id xxxx' ... 

Again, this is NOT recommended and might even fail depending on how far the job is.

Cheers !

-Kiwi.

[OMatlock]

Thank you!!

I was interested in clearing the commit.

Like if I were to make a change, see it in the commit preview, then clear it if wanted to.

Actually, I don't like how if I were to change something, then cancel the window, the commit still lights up even though the preview is empty.  Maybe that's changed in 7.1.

Yea, I would never try to cancel or clear a running commit task.

Sounds like I need to upgrade!  🙂

Thanks again.

[bradk14]

that sounds like what I was advising earlier (except I forgot the setup tab part). this will effectively undo any changes you made since the last commit.