After multiple successive editions of an application are
deployed and rolled out, which is not unusual in the life span of
many production applications, you might have a number of editions
stored in your repository that are no longer needed. You can delete
an active edition without performing a rollout to a new edition.
Before you begin
- You must have an installed, active edition.
- You must have a configurator or administrator administrative
role.
About this task
An edition can exist in one of three states. Therefore,
the method for deleting or uninstalling an edition varies slightly
based on its current state.
- Inactive: The edition is neither assigned for use in any
deployment target, nor the default. You can remove an inactive edition
at any time.
- Active: The edition is currently assigned for use in one
or more deployment targets. Use caution when you delete an active
edition, especially if the edition is started. Stop the edition first,
remove any routing rules that reference the edition, deactivate it,
and you can then remove or uninstall the edition. After you delete
an active edition, you must update the routing rules, and click Apply and Save regardless
of what item is displayed in the list.
- Validate: The edition is currently assigned for use in
the cloned deployment targets. For more information about removing
an application in validation mode, read about canceling an application
validation.
Procedure
- Remove any routing rules that reference the edition you
are uninstalling. Click or . Click the Routing policies tab
and select the appropriate routing rules.
- Click . Select
the target application.
- Stop the application edition.
- Deactivate the active edition. Select the edition,
and click Deactivate.
Instead of deactivating
an active edition, you can replace it with a new edition. You can
perform a rollout to a new edition, which makes the old edition inactive.
Use rollout to ensure an interruption-free deactivation of the edition
you want to delete.
- Uninstall the application. Click or . For an
enterprise application, select the edition that you want to uninstall,
click Uninstall. For a middleware application,
select the edition, and click Remove. You
are not required to restart the servers.
- Save and synchronize your changes.
Results
You removed the edition.