View deployment messages

View deployment messages to monitor the status of configuration deployments and access detailed deployment history for troubleshooting.

If you are an Admin user or have the Deploy Configuration to Devices permission, you can view deployment messages and history.

Complete these steps to view deployment messages and deployment history:

Procedure


Step 1

Click Notifications to display the Message Center.

Step 2

Click Deployments.

Step 3

You have the following choices:

  • Click total to view all current deployment statuses.
  • Click a status value to view only messages with that deployment status.
  • Hover your cursor over the time elapsed indicator for a message (for example, 1m 5s) to view the elapsed time, and start and stop times for the deployment.

Step 4

Click show deployment history to view more detailed information about the deployment jobs.

The Deployment History table lists the deployment jobs in the left column in reverse chronological order.

  1. Select a deployment job.

    The table in the right column shows each device that was included in the job, and the deployment status per device.

  2. To view responses from the device, and commands sent to the device during deployment, click download in the Transcript column for the device.

    The transcript includes the following sections:

    • Snort Apply: If there are any failures or responses from Snort-related policies, messages appear in this section. Normally, this section is empty.

    • CLI Apply: This section covers features that are configured using commands sent to the Lina process.

    • Infrastructure Messages: This section shows the status of different deployment modules.

    In the CLI Apply section, the deployment transcript lists commands sent to the device as well as any responses returned from the device. These responses can be informative messages or error messages. If a deployment fails, review the error messages to understand which commands were problematic. If you use FlexConfig policies to configure features, these messages can help you identify and correct issues in your FlexConfig scripts.

    Note

    The transcript does not distinguish between commands sent for managed features and those generated from FlexConfig policies.

    For example, this sequence shows that the Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center sent commands to configure GigabitEthernet0/0 with the logical name outside. The device responded that it automatically set the security level to 0. The Firewall Threat Defense does not use the security level for anything.

    
    ========= CLI APPLY =========
    
    FMC >> interface GigabitEthernet0/0
    FMC >>  nameif outside
    FTDv 192.168.0.152 >> [info] : INFO: Security level for "outside" set to 0 by default.
    
    

You can view deployment messages, monitor deployment statuses, and access detailed deployment history, including device transcripts to troubleshoot deployment issues.