Administer the Standard Virtual Appliance

Perform the following steps to administer the Virtual Appliance nodes in your Standard Deployment:

Stop the Virtual Appliance Services

Stop appd services on the Virtual Appliance.

Complete the following steps to stop the Virtual Appliance services:
  1. Stop the Anomaly Detection, Secure Application, ATD, and OpenTelemetry services.
    CODE 
    appdcli stop aiops|secapp|atd|otis
  2. Run the following command to stop Virtual Appliance services:
    CODE 
    appdcli stop appd
    Note: Wait for all pods to terminate, excluding the following namespaces:
    • appd-container-registry
    • cert-manager
    • elastic-system
    • kafka-operator
    • kube-system
    • mysql-operator
    • pg-operator
  3. Run the following command to stop operators, then wait till all the pods are terminated:
    CODE 
    appdcli stop operators
  4. Run the following command on all the Virtual Appliance nodes:
    CODE 
    sudo microk8s stop

Start the Virtual Appliance Services

Start the appd services on the Virtual Appliance

Complete the following steps to start the Virtual Appliance services:
  1. Start all the virtual machines.
  2. Run the following command to start microk8s.
    CODE 
    sudo microk8s start
  3. Verify the status of virtual machines.
    CODE 
    appdctl show boot
    Note: Ensure that the status of the services in each node appears as Success.
    Sample Output:
    CODE 
    NAME             | STATUS    | ERROR
------------------+-----------+-------
 enable-time-sync | Succeeded | --
 firewall-setup   | Succeeded | --
 hostname         | Succeeded | --
 microk8s-setup   | Succeeded | --
 ssh-setup        | Succeeded | --
 storage-setup    | Succeeded | --
 cert-setup       | Succeeded | --
  4. Start the Virtual Appliance services.
    CODE 
    appdcli start appd <profile>
appdcli start aiops <profile>
appdcli start secapp <profile>
appdcli start atd <profile>
appdcli start otis <profile>