The steps outlined below should not be done as a routine maintenance or upgrade procedure. These are intended for cases when Kafka Service fails to start or form a Kafka cluster and requests in MC2 and/or EQL/EDS are not being processed.
The following symptoms could be indicating of a problem with Kafka Service configuration, requiring a cleanup of Kafka Service logs:
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2. Only after the services are stopped on ALL nodes, remove the kafka configuration and logs:
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NOTE: Do not start kafka service on any of the nodes before the above steps are completed on ALL nodes.
3. Start Kafka Service on all nodes:
cd eaglemgr
./start starweb kafkaservice
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