Uninstall Load Balancer before upgrading to a newer version
or if you think that the current installation is corrupted. You can
use IBM Installation Manager to uninstall Load Balancer using response
files.
Before you begin
Optional: Perform
or record the installation of Installation Manager and installation
of the product to a temporary installation registry on one of your
systems so that you can use this temporary registry to record the
uninstallation without using the standard registry where Installation
Manager is installed.
Read the following for more information:
About this task
Using Installation Manager, you can work with response
files to uninstall the product in a variety of ways. You can use
a response file by:
- Writing a new response file by hand.
- Modifying an existing response file or sample.
- Recording a new response file using the GUI as described in this
topic
Procedure
- Stop all the processes that are related to the Load Balancer
product.
- Optional: Record a response file to uninstall
the product.
On one of your systems, perform the following
actions to record a response file that will uninstall the product:
- From a command line, change to the eclipse subdirectory
in the directory where you installed Installation Manager.
- Start Installation Manager from the command line using
the -record option. For example, run the following as
an administrator:
![[AIX]](../lb/images/aixlogo.gif)
![[HP-UX]](../lb/images/hpux.gif)
![[Linux]](../lb/images/linux.gif)
./IBMIM -skipInstall /var/temp/imRegistry -record /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
IBMIM.exe -skipInstall "C:\temp\imRegistry" -record C:\temp\uninstall_response_file.xml
Tip: If you choose to use the -skipInstall parameter
with a temporary installation registry that you created, Installation
Manager uses the temporary installation registry while recording the
response file. When the -skipInstall parameter is specified, no product
packages are installed or uninstalled. All of the actions that you
perform in Installation Manager simply update the installation data
that is stored in the specified temporary registry. Do not use the
-skipInstall on the actual agent data location used by Installation
Manager. Use a clean writable location, and reuse that location for
future recording sessions.
After the response file is generated,
it can be used to uninstall the product, remove the product files,
and update the standard installation registry.
For more
information, read the topic on recording a response file with Installation
Manager in the Installation Manager information Center.
- Click Uninstall.
- In the Uninstall Packages window, select IBM Websphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 and click Next.
- Review the summary information.
- Click Uninstall.
- If the uninstallation is successful, the program displays a message
that indicates success.
- If the uninstallation is not successful, click View
log to troubleshoot the problem.
- Click Finish.
- Click to close Installation Manager.
- Use the response file to uninstall the product silently
From a command line on each of the systems from which you
want to uninstall the product, change to the eclipse subdirectory
in the directory where you installed Installation Manager and use
the response file that you created to silently uninstall the product.
For example, run the following command as an administrator:![[AIX]](../lb/images/aixlogo.gif)
![[HP-UX]](../lb/images/hpux.gif)
![[Linux]](../lb/images/linux.gif)
./IBMIM --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
-input /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
-log /var/temp/uninstall_log.xml
IBMIMc.exe --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
-input C:\temp\uninstall_response_file.xml
-log C:\temp\uninstall_log.xml
Refer
to the Installation Manager Information Center for more information.
- Optional: Uninstall IBM Installation Manager.
Important: Before you can uninstall IBM Installation Manager, you must uninstall
all of the packages that were installed by Installation Manager.
Read
the topic on silently uninstalling Installation Manager in the Installation
Manager Information Center for information about using the uninstall
script to perform this procedure.
Example
Here is an example of a response file
for silently uninstalling the product.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<agent-input>
<server>
<repository location='C:\repositories\edge80\local-repositories'/>
</server>
<profile installLocation='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\edge\ulb'>
<data key='eclipseLocation' value='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\edge\ulb'/>
<data key='cic.selector.nl'
value='en, fr, it, zh, ru, zh_TW, de, ja, pl, es, cs, hu, ko, pt_BR'/>
</profile>
<uninstall modify='false'>
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.EDGELBIPV4IPV6.v85'
version='8.5.0.0'
profile='IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6 V8.5'
features='Dispatcher,Load Balancer,Metric Server,Content Based Routing,Site Selector'/>
</uninstall>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.eclipseCache'
value='C:\Program Files\IBM\IMShared'/>
<preference value='30' name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.connectTimeout' />
<preference value='30' name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.readTimeout' />
<preference value='0' name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.downloadAutoRetryCount' />
<preference value='true' name='offering.service.repositories.areUsed' />
<preference value='false' name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.ssl.nonsecureMode' />
<preference value='false'
name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.http.disablePreemptiveAuthentication' />
<preference value='true'
name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.preserveDownloadedArtifacts' />
<preference value='false' name='PassportAdvantageIsEnabled' />
<preference value='false'
name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates' />
</agent-input>
Note: In this example,
the offering tag specifies the version attribute. When you include
the version attribute, you can use the uninstallation response file
only for the version of the offering that you specify. Go to the Installation
Manager information center for more information.