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# While Disabling Policy Engine, Orca Continually Advises that it Cannot Communicate with OPA Server

### Issue <a href="#issue" id="issue"></a>

When disabling and removing Policy Engine, the following error continues to occur in Orca logs. There are however, no issues with deployments or executions of pipelines 2020-11-05 07:36:17.726 ERROR 1 --- \[ handlers-15] io.armory.spinnaker.opa.PolicyEnforcer : \[<johnsmith@abc.com>] Policy Error: Unable to communicate with OPA Server \[...]

### Cause <a href="#cause" id="cause"></a>

Not all configurations were removed, and so references still exist to check for the OPA server.