Uninstall Load Balancer before upgrading to a newer version,
or if you think the current installation is corrupted. You can use
IBM Installation Manager to uninstall this product silently.
Before you begin
Perform or record an installation of IBM® Installation Manager and the
product to a temporary installation registry on one of your systems.
You can use this temporary registry to record the uninstallation without
having to use the standard registry in which Installation Manager
is installed. Read the following for more information:
About this task
You can work with response files and Installation Manager
to uninstall the product silently in a variety of ways. You can use
a response file by:
- Recording a new response file and using the GUI, as described
in this topic
- Writing a new response file
- Modifying an existing response file or sample.
Procedure
- Stop all the processes that are related to the Load Balancer
product.
- Optional: Record a response file to 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, run the following as
an administrator:
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./IBMIM -skipInstall /var/temp/imRegistry -record /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
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 information center.
- Click Uninstall.
- In the Uninstall Packages panel, select IBM Websphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6, and click Next.
- Review the summary information.
- Click Uninstall. Review
the results:
- 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.
- Close Installation Manager. Click .
- 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 in which 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:
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./IBMIM --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
-input /var/temp/uninstall_response_file.xml
-log /var/temp/uninstall_log.xml
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 information center for more information.
- Optional: Uninstall IBM Installation Manager.
Avoid trouble: Before you can uninstall IBM Installation Manager, you must uninstall
all of the packages that were installed by Installation Manager.
gotcha
Read
the topic on silently uninstalling Installation Manager in the Installation
Manager information center for information about using the uninstall
script to perform this procedure.
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.v80'
version='8.0.0.0'
profile='IBM WebSphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6 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>
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
information center for more information.