Disable warm standby

Warm standby must be disabled in order to:

• perform systems maintenance
• set up back up or perform a restore
• upgrade

If warm standby is disabled, you will need to reconfigure warm standby from the beginning.

Disable warm standby procedure

Do these steps as either the root user or a user with sudo permissions.

On the primary

1. Turn off warm standby.
   phenv python /<PHANTOM_HOME>/bin/setup_warm_standby.pyc --primary-mode --off

On the warm standby

1. Turn off warm standby.
   phenv python /<PHANTOM_HOME>/bin/setup_warm_standby.pyc --standby-mode --off
2. Stop all services.
   /<PHANTOM_HOME>/bin/stop_phantom.sh

Warm standby will be disabled, and the cron jobs removed to prevent the rsync jobs from running.