Checklist: Stopping Event Ingestion

Before upgrading your environment, complete the following procedures in the listed order:

 

Task

See

Stop the database event consumer (the Kafka Scheduler) so you can record its offsets

Stopping the Database Event Consumer

(Conditional) If you have Intelligence deployed, monitor the Intelligence event consumers to stop them when they catch up to the database event consumer

Stopping the Intelligence Event Consumers

Prevent the database from consuming duplicate events

Preventing the Database from Consuming Duplicate Events

Continue with the upgrade process for the ArcSight Platform

Upgrading the ArcSight Database

Upgrade your ArcSight Platform environment

Upgrading Your Environment

Restart the database watchdog service and the event consumers

Restarting the Event Consumers