Removing Backup Appliance from HA Pair

You can use the following procedure to remove the backup appliance from a high-availability (HA) redundancy pair of appliances. You should note that in the code snippets shown below solace1 is the primary appliance, and solace2 is the backup .

1. Ensure that the primary appliance is Local Active, and the backup is Mate Active.

   solace1> show redundancy

   Configuration Status     : Enabled
   Redundancy Status        : Up
   . . .
   
   Primary Virtual Router         Backup Virtual Router
   ----------------------         ---------------------
   Activity Status                Local Active           Mate Active
   . . .
   Message Spool Status           AD-Active              AD-Disabled           
   Priority Reported By Mate      Standby                Active                
   . . .

   solace2> show redundancy

   Configuration Status     : Enabled
   Redundancy Status        : Up
   . . .
   Primary Virtual Router         Backup Virtual Router
   ----------------------         ---------------------
   Activity Status                Local Active           Mate Active
   . . .
   Message Spool Status           AD-Disabled            AD-Standby            
   Priority Reported By Mate      Standby                Active  
   
   . . .

2. If Guaranteed Messaging is used in the HA pair, shut down and disable the message spool on the backup appliance.

   solace2(configure/ip/vrf)# exit
   solace2(configure/ip)# exit
   solace2(configure)# hardware message-spool
   solace2(configure/hardware/message-spool)# shutdown
   Do you want to continue (y/n)? y
   backup(configure/hardware/message-spool)# no disk-array

3. Shut down redundancy on the backup appliance.

   solace2> enable
   solace2# configure
   solace2(configure)# redundancy
   solace2(configure/redundancy)# shutdown

4. Shut down redundancy on the primary appliance.

   solace1> enable
   solace1# configure
   solace1(configure)# redundancy
   solace1(configure/redundancy)# shutdown

5. Remove the redundancy configuration from the primary appliance.

   solace1(configure/redundancy)# no vrrp-vrid primary
   solace1(configure/redundancy)# no vrrp-vrid backup
   solace1(configure/redundancy)# no mate-router-name

6. Remove the backup message backbone interface from the primary appliance.

   solace1(configure/redundancy)# exit
   solace1(configure)# ip vrf msg-backbone
   solace1(configure/ip/vrf)# interface <backup-interface>
   solace1(configure/ip/vrf/interface)# shutdown
   solace1(configure/ip/vrf/interface)# exit
   solace1(configure/ip/vrf)# no interface <back-interface>

7. Remove redundancy configuration from the backup appliance.

   solace2(configure/redundancy)# no vrrp-vrid primary
   solace2(configure/redundancy)# no vrrp-vrid backup
   solace2(configure/redundancy)# no mate-router-name

8. Remove the backup message backbone interface from the backup appliance.

   solace2(configure/redundancy)# exit
   solace2(configure)# ip vrf msg-backbone
   solace2(configure/ip/vrf)# interface <backup_interface>
   solace2(configure/ip/vrf/interface)# shutdown
   solace2(configure/ip/vrf/interface)# exit
   solace2(configure/ip/vrf)# no interface <backup_interface>