Deactivate the Embedded Cassandra modules

As you upgrade to the external/co-located Cassandra cluster from version 8.1.203 and later, you may consider deactivating the embedded Cassandra module that you used in the previous versions of SIP Feature Server. This article describes the procedures to deactivate the embedded Cassandra modules.

Deactivating the Thrift protocol module for version 8.1.203 and later

If you have upgraded SIP Feature Server to version 8.1.203 and set it to use the CQL protocol to access your external Cassandra cluster, you might want to deactivate the library that provides connectivity over the obsolete Thrift protocol.

To deactivate the Thrift protocol module,

1. Locate the start.ini file in the path: <FS installation folder>/start.ini.
2. Open the file with a text editor and remove the line --module=fs-thrift.
3. Save the file.
4. Restart SIP Feature Server if it is running.
5. After restart, remove the installation files from the <FS installation folder>/lib/fs-thrift folder.

   Note that this step requires you to disable and remove the Embedded Cassandra module also. Refer the procedure in the next section.

Deactivating Embedded Cassandra module for version 8.1.203 and later

If you have upgraded SIP Feature Server to version 8.1.203 and later and used external Cassandra in your deployment, you can deactivate the Embedded Cassandra module from the deployment. Note that deactivating the Embedded Cassandra module is recommended but it is an optional step.

To deactivate the Embedded Cassandra module:

1. Locate the start.ini file in the path: <FS installation folder>/start.ini.
2. Open the file with a text editor and remove the line --module=fs-cass11.
3. Save the file.
4. Restart SIP Feature Server if it is running.
5. After restart, remove the installation files from the <FS installation folder>/lib/fs-cass11 folder.