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:
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./IBMIM -skipInstall /var/temp/imRegistry -record /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
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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 documentation.
- 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]](../images/aixlogo.gif)
![[HP-UX]](../images/hpux.gif)
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![[Solaris]](../images/solaris.gif)
./IBMIM --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
-input /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
-log /var/temp/uninstall_log.xml
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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 documentation 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 documentation for information about using the uninstall script to perform this
procedure.
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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 documentation for more
information.