Uninstalling applications using the job manager
In a flexible management environment, you can submit jobs to remove deployed applications from managed targets of the job manager.
Before you begin
Start the job manager and the targets. If a target is a stand-alone application server, also start the administrative agent.
Submit the Stop application job and stop the running of the application that you want to uninstall. The application must be installed on one or more application servers that are on managed targets of the job manager.
About this task
You can use the administrative console of the job manager or the deployment manager to submit a job that removes a deployed application from a managed target. From the console, choose the Uninstall application job, specify the application to remove, specify job options, review the summary, and submit the job.
Instead of using a console, you can run the uninstallApplication job script in the AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types topic.
Procedure
Results
The targets run the job and attempt to uninstall the application.
What to do next
On
the Job status page, click the job ID of the uninstall
application job and view the job status. Click the status refresh
icon to refresh the
displayed status.
If the job is not successful, view any error messages that result from running the job, correct the error condition, and submit the job again.
If the job is successful, click
. The names of deleted applications are not in the list of resources.After uninstalling the application, if you previously ran the Distribute file job to distribute the application to targets, you can run the Remove file job to remove the application file from the flexible management environment.