Deleting the Configuration Manager

Before you start:

Ensure that your user ID has the correct authorizations to perform the task. Refer to Security requirements for administrative tasks

You delete the Configuration Manager on Windows platforms only, using the command line. The Configuration Manager can be deleted only from the system where the Configuration Manager component is installed.

You can delete a Configuration Manager without also deleting your domain connection parameters in the workbench. If you want to delete a Configuration Manager and create a new one, you can keep your connection parameters in the workbench, even if you specify different parameters when creating the new Configuration Manager. When you reconnect to your domain in the workbench your new settings will be displayed.

The following steps show you how to delete a Configuration Manager.

  1. Stop the Configuration Manager using the mqsistop command.
  2. Enter the following command to delete the Configuration Manager:
    mqsideleteconfigmgr
On completion of this task, you have:
  • Stopped the Windows service that runs the Configuration Manager.
  • Removed the record for the component in the broker registry. It is therefore removed from the list of components displayed by issuing the mqsilist command.
  • Preserved the Configuration Manager's database tables, and thus all data in the configuration repository.

    Specifying the -n parameter on the mqsideleteconfigmgr command, removes these tables.

Related concepts
Configuration Manager

Related tasks
Starting and stopping the Configuration Manager
Creating a Configuration Manager
Deleting a domain connection

Related reference
Security requirements for administrative tasks
mqsideleteconfigmgr command
mqsistop command
mqsilist (list resources) command