The Chain Governor feature is disabled by default. Guardians can enable it by passing the following flag to the `guardiand` command when starting it up:
```bash
--chainGovernorEnabled=true
```
To observe the default chain limits, see `node/pkg/governor/mainnet_chains.go`. Occasionally, these limits will be adjusted to stay in touch with notional drift associated with certain chains going up/down.
### Checking Status
To list the governor status for each chain, Guardians can run the `governor-status` admin command as follows:
To manually release a pending VAA (identified by emitted chain ID / address and sequence number), Guardians can run the `governor-release-pending-vaa` admin command as follows:
NOTE: VAAs that are published this way will not affect the rolling 24hr limit.
When a VAA is released, it will be placed in a holding area until the next pending VAA check so there may be some delay for it to actually be published.
### Dropping VAAs
To manually remove a pending VAA (identified by emitted chain ID / address and sequence number), Guardians can run the `governor-drop-pending-vaa` admin command as follows: