Symptom

Policy deployment failing with reason, Validation failed: ConfigDispatcher is not ready to Accept Deployments. Still in transition phase to get to Stable INIT State. Hence Rejecting this Deployment Request. Please retry deployment after some time

Conditions

+ FTD managed via FMC + Getting failure logs in ngfwManager.log, Sep 13 04:38:49 ccm[28083] CDtoCCMInQHandlerTh: DEBUG com.cisco.ngfw.configdispatcher.communicators.CcmCommunicatorImpl- Can Config Dispatcher Initiate Deployment Request from FMC?: true Sep 13 04:38:49 ccm[28083] CDtoCCMInQHandlerTh: INFO com.cisco.ngfw.configdispatcher.communicators.CcmCommunicatorImpl- LinaEventHandler events are being processed, ConfigDispatcher is not in INIT state and hence not ready to Handle Deployment. Please try after sometime. Sep 13 04:38:49 ccm[28083] CDtoCCMInQHandlerTh: INFO com.cisco.ngfw.configdispatcher.communicators.CcmCommunicatorImpl- Rejecting StartDeployment Message from UM and sending FAILURE deploymentStatus to UM Sep 13 04:38:49 ccm[28083] CCMtoCDInQHandlerTh: DEBUG com.cisco.ccm.ConfigCommunicationManager- Got message from config dispatcher (DeploymentStatus): {"transactionId":107374183652,"sequenceId":0,"log":"Validation failed: ConfigDispatcher is not ready to Accept Deployments. Still in transition phase to get to Stable INIT State. Hence Rejecting this Deployment Request. Please retry deployment after some time","status":"FAILURE","linaOutput":"","errorCode":null,"errorString":"","posArguments":null,"phase":null,"timestamp":1663043929549,"phaseStatus":null} Sep 13 04:38:49 ccm[28083] CCMtoCDInQHandlerTh: INFO com.cisco.ccm.ConfigCommunicationManager- Deployment FAILURE (transaction id 107374183652)

Workaround

Restart ngfwManager using the command 'pmtool restartbyid ngfwManager'. This should not affect the traffic through the FTD.

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