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Deleting profiles

You can delete a profile using the manageprofiles command. If the command fails, you can delete the profile using operating system commands.

Before you begin

If a node within a profile is federated to a deployment manager, before you delete the profile, stop the node and remove the node from the deployment manager. Otherwise, an orphan node is left in the deployment manager.

If you delete a profile that has augmenting templates registered to it in the profile registry, unaugment actions are attempted prior to the deletion.

You cannot delete a profile using the Profile Management Tool.

About this task

The following example attempts to delete a profile using the manageprofiles command, and then using operating system commands.

Procedure

  1. Issue the manageprofiles command to delete a profile.

    Substitute your profile name for the profile_name value in the following commands.

    ./manageprofiles.sh -delete 
                    -profileName profile_name
    
    manageprofiles.bat -delete 
                   -profileName profile_name
    ./manageprofiles -delete 
                    -profileName profile_name
    
    If the command is successful, you have completed the task and can skip the remaining steps. If the command is partially successful or unsuccessful, proceed to the next step to delete the profile manually. If you receive the INSTCONFFAILED: Cannot delete profile. message, the command was unsuccessful. If the deletion is partially successful, you could receive message information similar to the following wording:
    INSTCONFPARTIALSUCCESS: The profiles no longer exist, but errors occurred. 
    For more information, consult 
    app_server_root/logs/manageprofiles/deleteAll.log.
    or
    The current user does not have sufficient permissions to detect or 
    remove services. If a service does exist, then an administrative or root user has 
    to remove it. If a service does not exist, then no further action is 
    required.
  2. Issue operating system commands to delete the profile directory.
  3. Issue the following command to remove references in the registry to deleted profiles:
    ./manageprofiles.sh -validateAndUpdateRegistry 
    
    manageprofiles.bat -validateAndUpdateRegistry
    manageprofiles -validateAndUpdateRegistry
    Editing of the registry is not recommended.

Results

You have now deleted a profile.

What to do next

You can delete other profiles using this procedure, or create other profiles using the manageprofiles command.

You can delete other profiles using this procedure, or create other profiles using the manageprofiles command or the Profile Management Tool.

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