| ### Before You Delete a Clearinghouse Before you attempt to delete a clearinghouse, make sure of the following: · The clearinghouse is known to the server. · The clearinghouse does not store a master replica. When you clear a clearinghouse, the server on which the clearinghouse was running no longer has information about the clearinghouse in its internal memory. If you subsequently try to delete the clearinghouse, CDS will not find it and will return a message that it does not exist. Before you can delete a cleared clearinghouse, you must recreate it using the clearinghouse create command. CDS does not allow you to delete a clearinghouse that contains a directory's master replica. Before you delete such a clearinghouse, you must designate another replica in that directory's replica set as the master replica. If no other replicas of the directory exist, create a read-only replica at another clearinghouse and then designate it as the directory's new master replica before you delete the original master replica from the clearinghouse. (See Modifying a Directory's Replica Set for instructions on modifying a directory's replica set.) ###