Uninstalling Edge Components

Uninstalling Edge Components with the IBM Installation Manager GUI

Use the Installation Manager GUI to uninstall the product.

  1. Uninstall the product.
    1. Stop all instances and services for the Edge Components products.
    2. Start Installation Manager.
    3. Click Uninstall.
    4. 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.

    5. Click Next.
    6. Review the summary information.
    7. 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.
    8. Click Finish.
    9. Click File > Exit to close Installation Manager.
  2. Optional: Uninstall IBM Installation Manager. You must uninstall all of the packages that were installed by Installation Manager before you can uninstall IBM Installation Manager.

    Read >Uninstalling Installation Manager in the Installation Manager Information Center for information about performing this procedure.

Uninstalling Edge Components silently with IBM Installation Manager

Use Installation Manager to uninstall this product silently.

  1. 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.

  2. Stop all instances and services for the Edge Components products.
  3. 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:
    1. From a command line, change to the eclipse subdirectory in the directory in which you installed Installation Manager.
    2. Start Installation Manager from the command line using the -record option. For example:
      • [Windows] Administrator or non-administrator:
        IBMIM.exe -skipInstall "C:\temp\imRegistry" 
              -record C:\temp\uninstall_response_file.xml
      • [AIX] [HP-UX] [Linux] [Solaris] Administrator:
        ./IBMIM -skipInstall /var/temp/imRegistry 
              -record /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
      • [AIX] [HP-UX] [Linux] [Solaris] Non-administrator:
        ./IBMIM -skipInstall user_home/var/temp/imRegistry 
              -record user_home/var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
      Tip: If you choose to use the -skipInstall parameter with a temporary installation registry created as described in "Before you begin," Installation Manager uses the temporary installation registry while recording the response file. It is important to note that when you specify the -skipInstall parameter, 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. After the response file is generated, it can be used to uninstall the product, removing the product files and updating the standard installation registry.

      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 Information Center.

    3. Click Uninstall.
    4. 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.
    5. Click Next.
    6. Review the summary information.
    7. 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.
    8. Click Finish.
    9. Click File > Exit to close Installation Manager.
  4. 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:

    Go to the Installation Manager Information Center for more information.

  5. Optional: Uninstall IBM Installation Manager. You must uninstall all of the packages that were installed by Installation Manager before you can uninstall IBM Installation Manager.

    Read >Uninstalling Installation Manager in the Installation Manager Information Center for information about performing this procedure.

[Windows] Example: The following is a sample response file for uninstalling Load Balancer for IPv4:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<agent-input>
<server>
  <repository location='C:\repositories\edge80\local-repositories'/>
</server>
<profile installLocation='c:\program files\loadbalancer\ibm\edge\lb'>
  <data key='eclipseLocation' value='c:\program files\loadbalancer\ibm\edge\lb'/>
  <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.EDGELBIPV4.v80' version='8.0.0.0' 
      profile='IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPV4 V8.0' 
      features='Dispatcher,Load Balancer,Metric Server'/>
</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

If you installed a previous version of the Edge Components products, you need to use the native installers or system packaging tools to uninstall them. This section contains the following information:

[Windows] Uninstalling Edge Components for Windows
  1. 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.
  2. Ensure that the Load Balancer service is set to Manual. For example:
    1. Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
    2. Right click the entry for Load Balancer, and select Properties.
    3. Change the Startup type selection to Manual.
  3. Restart your Windows machine.
  4. Use the Add/Remove Programs feature in Control Panel to uninstall Caching Proxy or Load Balancer for IPv4.
[AIX] Uninstalling Edge Components for AIX
[HP-UX] Uninstalling Edge Components for HP-UX
[Linux] Uninstalling Edge Components for Linux
[Solaris] Uninstalling Edge Components for Solaris