You can uninstall the product using IBM® Installation Manager with response
files.
Before you begin
Optional: 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.
About this task
Using Installation Manager, you can work with response
files to uninstall the product in a variety of ways. You can record
a response file using the GUI as described in the following procedure,
or you can generate a new response file by hand or by taking an example
and modifying it.
Procedure
- Stop all processes that are running in your environment.
- 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:
- From a command line, change to the eclipse subdirectory
in the directory where you installed Installation Manager.
- Start Installation Manager from the command line using
the -record option.
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 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. 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 IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center.
- Click Uninstall.
- In the Uninstall Packages window,
perform the following actions.
- Select one of the following and the appropriate version:
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale in
a stand-alone environment
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale Client in a stand-alone
environment
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale for WebSphere Application Server Version 6
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale for WebSphere Application Server Version 7
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale for WebSphere Application Server Version 8
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale Client forWebSphere Application Server Version 6
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale Client for WebSphere Application Server Version 7
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale Client for WebSphere Application Server Version 8
- Click Next.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information.
- 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.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close
Installation Manager.
- Use the response file to uninstall the product: 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 uninstall the product.
Go to the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center for more information.
- Optional: List all installed packages to verify
the uninstallation.
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- Optional: Uninstall IBM Installation Manager.
Important: Before you can uninstall IBM Installation Manager, you must uninstall
all of the packages that were installed by Installation Manager.
Read
the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center for information about
using the uninstall script to perform this procedure.