Uninstalling Edge Components
Uninstalling Edge Components with the IBM Installation Manager GUI
- Uninstall the product.
- Stop all instances and services for the Edge Components products.
- Start Installation Manager.
- Click Uninstall.
- In the Uninstall Packages window, select the package and the appropriate version for the product
to uninstall.
For example, select IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Caching Proxy or IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6.
- 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 File > Exit to close Installation Manager.
Uninstalling Edge Components silently with IBM Installation Manager
- Optional: Before you uninstall the product, you can 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 Installing Edge Components with the IBM Installation Manager GUI or Installing Edge Components silently with IBM Installation Manager for more information.
- Stop all instances and services for the Edge Components products.
- 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 in which you installed Installation Manager.
- Start Installation Manager from the command line using the -record option. For example:
Administrator or non-administrator:
IBMIM.exe -skipInstall "C:\temp\imRegistry" -record C:\temp\uninstall_response_file.xml
Administrator:
./IBMIM -skipInstall /var/temp/imRegistry -record /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
Non-administrator:
./IBMIM -skipInstall user_home/var/temp/imRegistry -record user_home/var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
The -skipInstall operation should not be used on the actual agent data location used by Installation Manager. This is unsupported. Use a clean writable location, and re-use that location for future recording sessions.
For more information, read the Installation Manager documentation.
- Click Uninstall.
- In the Uninstall Packages window, select the product and the appropriate version to uninstall. For example, select IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Caching Proxy or IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6.
- 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 File > Exit 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/tools subdirectory in
the directory where you installed Installation Manager and use the response file that you created to
silently uninstall the product. For example:
Administrator or non-administrator:
imcl.exe input C:\temp\uninstall_response_file.xml -log C:\temp\uninstall_log.xml
Administrator:
./imcl input /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml -log /var/temp/uninstall_log.xml
Non-administrator:
./imcl input user_home/var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml -log user_home/var/temp/uninstall_log.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<agent-input>
<server>
<repository location='C:\repositories\edge90\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.v90' version='9.0.0.0'
profile='IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6'
features='Dispatcher,LoadBalancer'/>
</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>
Uninstalling previous versions of Edge Components
Uninstalling Edge Components for Windows
- To prevent the currently installed Load Balancer from starting, edit any start scripts that you created to temporarily suppress any commands that will start Load Balancer upon reboot.
- Ensure that the Load Balancer service is set to Manual. For example:
- Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
- Right click the entry for Load Balancer, and select Properties.
- Change the Startup type selection to Manual.
- Restart your Windows machine.
- Use the Add/Remove Programs feature in Control Panel to uninstall Caching Proxy or Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6.
Uninstalling Edge Components for AIX
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command:
installp -u wses
- To uninstall Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6:
- Ensure that all executors and servers are stopped.
- enter the following command:
For Version 6.0 or earlier, enter the following command:installp -u ibmlb
installp -u ibmnd
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command:
Uninstalling Edge Components for HP-UX
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command:
swremove packagename
Remove packages in the reverse order in which they were installed. These are the names and the recommended order for uninstalling the packages:- WSES-DOC-en_US
- WSES-CP
- WSES-cpmlang
- WSES-ADMIN
- WSES-ICU
- gsk7bas
The variable lang refers to the substitution of one of the following language specific codes: de_DE, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT, ja_JP, ko_KR, zh_CN, zh_TW. HP-UX does not support Portuguese Brazilian (pt_BR).
To query the Caching Proxy packages that are still installed, use the command:swlist | grep WSES
- To uninstall Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6:
- Ensure that all executors and servers are stopped.
- Enter the following command:
swremove ibmlb
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command:
Uninstalling Edge Components for Linux
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command:
Remove the packages in the reverse order in which they were installed. These are the names and recommended order for uninstalling the packages:rpm -e packagename
- WSES_Doc_en_US-release-version.hardw.rpm
- WSES_CachingProxy-release-version.hardw.rpm
- WSES_CachingProxy_msg_lang3-release-version.hardw.rpm
- WSES_Admin_Runtime-release-version.hardw.rpm
- WSES_ICU_Runtime-release-version.hardw.rpm
- gsk7bas.rpm
- release-version is the current release, for example: 6.1.0-0
- hardw refers to the substitution of one of the following: i686, s390, ppc64.
- lang refers to the substitution of one of the following language specific codes: de_DE, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, it_IT, ja_JP, ko_KR, pt_BR, zh_CN, zh_TW.
To query the Caching Proxy packages that are still installed, use the command:rpm -qa |grep -i wses
- To uninstall Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6, enter the following
command:
- Ensure that all executors and servers are stopped.
- Enter the following command:
When uninstalling the packages, reverse the order used for installation. These are the package names and the recommended order for uninstalling:rpm -e pkgname
- ibmlb-ms-release-version.hardw.rpm (Metric Server)
- ibmlb-doc-release-version.hardw.rpm (Documentation)
- ibmlb-component-release-version.hardw.rpm (LB component)
- ibmlb-lic-release-version.hardw.rpm (License)
- ibmlb-admin-release-version.hardw.rpm (Administration)
- ibmlb-base-release-version.hardw.rpm (Base)
where:- release-version is the current release, for example: 6.1.0-0
- hardw is one of the following values: i386, ppc64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64.
- component is one of the following values: disp (Dispatcher component), cbr (CBR component), ss (Site Selector component), cco (Cisco CSS Controller), nal (Nortel Alteon Controller)
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command:
Uninstalling Edge Components for Solaris
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command:
Remove the packages in the reverse order in which they were installed. These are the package names and the recommended order for uninstalling:pkgrm packagename
- WSESdocen
- WSEScp
- WSEScpmlang
- WSESadmin
- WSESicu
- gsk7bas
To query the Caching Proxy packages that are still installed, use the command:pkginfo | grep WSES
- To uninstall Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6:
- Ensure that all executors and servers are stopped.
- Enter the following command:
When uninstalling the packages, reverse the order used for installation. These are the package names and the recommended order for uninstalling:pkgrm pkgname
- ibmlbms (Metric Server)
- ibmlbdoc (Documentation)
- ibmlbnal (Nortel Alteon Controller component)
- ibmlbcco (Cisco CSS Controller component)
- ibmlbss (Site Selector component)
- ibmlbcbr (CBR component)
- ibmlbdisp (Dispatcher component)
- ibmlblic (License)
- ibmlbadm (Administration)
- ibmlbbase (Base)
- To uninstall Caching Proxy, enter the following
command: