You can uninstall the product using IBM® Installation
Manager with response files.
Before you begin
You must remove the
WebSphere® eXtreme Scale augment from all
WebSphere Application Server profiles before uninstalling
WebSphere eXtreme Scale. You will
be unable to perform the unaugment after uninstalling
WebSphere eXtreme Scale. Use the manageprofiles
command to unaugment existing profiles in a
WebSphere eXtreme Scale environment.
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 7
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale for WebSphere Application Server Version 8
- 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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./imcl listInstalledPackages
imcl listInstalledPackages
- If the uninstallation process displays a list of augmented WebSphere Application Server profiles, then you must
unaugment these profiles in order to proceed with the uninstallation.
- 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.