Users Guide

Uninstalling the Application | Installing Single-Server Deployment
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Uninstalling the Application
Use Control Panel to uninstall in Windows. Uninstall by running the following on Linux:
$OWARE_USER_ROOT/uninstall
No graphic wizard appears, and you must respond to the command-line prompts as they appear.
You can uninstall the software by using Windows’ control panel’s
Add/Remove programs feature (or
from a Windows command prompt with %OWARE_USER_ROOT%\uninstall.lnk), or by running
one of the following on Linux:
$OWARE_USER_ROOT/_uninst/linux_uninstall
For console mode, run one of the following
$OWARE_USER_ROOT/uninstall -I console
NOTE:
If you uninstall in a shell rather than using the graphic uninstaller, uninstaller cannot uninstall its own
directory. This produces some errors you can safely ignore in a console uninstallation. Use
cd /opt
and then
rm -rf [installation target directory] to do final cleanup.
In graphic uninstallation, as in installation, click Next to continue through the screens as they
appear. One such screen appears listing what you want to uninstall. Confirm that you want to
remove all the listed installed components. You can optionally delete all the applications’ files and
directories (complete removal).
CAUTION:
Uninstallation on MySql servers may delete the database and any application directories. The
applications’ directories also contains any installed application components and device drivers.
The option to delete directories is primarily to support application developers having to uninstall
and re-install the basic application platform without losing component files (like device drivers) on
disk that were not part of the installation.
Deletion is recommended, but not required. It removes files created after installation; temp files,
database files, cache files, and files extracted from OCP/DDP files. Overall, it is the best way to get
a clean uninstallation.
NOTE:
You can back up your oware/lib/*.properties files or overrides before uninstalling if you want
to preserve them. An alternative is overriding properties.
Refer to the OpenManage Network
Manager User Guide for more on overriding properties
.
When the software has been completely uninstalled on Windows, if prompted, you must reboot
your computer to complete deletion of any locked files. Best practice is to reboot right away.
Uninstalling removes all installed files and files created by using the installed system (that it has
permission to delete). It does
not remove directories that were not created by this application’s
installation or runtime. User-created directories in the product’s directory path remain after
product removal.
NOTE:
Uninstaller may freeze on hosts with inadequate resources. Also: The uninstaller deletes uninstall.exe, if
you press the cancel button. After the canceling uninstallation, several directories and files remaining on
disk that require manually deletion to completely uninstall.