Installation guide

EMC NetWorker Release 8.1 SP1 Installation Guide 127
Microsoft Windows Installation
• On 32-bit hosts: ...\win_x86\networkr
• On 64-bit hosts: ...\win_x64\networkr
• On 64-bit Itanium hosts: ...\win_ia64\networkr
2. On the Choose Setup Language window, select a language and click OK.
3. On the Welcome to NetWorker Maintenance window, click Next.
4. On the Maintenance Type window, click Remove and click Next.
When Maintenance Mode is used to uninstall the NetWorker software on a system that
has the Console server software installed, the Console server software is removed
first, then the NetWorker software is removed.
5. In the Ready to Remove window, do not select the Remove NetWorker Metadata
option.
During a NetWorker or Console server software update or a reinstallation of the
software, this option should not be used.
By default, the Remove NetWorker Metadata checkbox is clear to ensure that all of the
NetWorker configuration files (such as client file indexes, media database, logs, and
resource files) are retained for a future installation of the NetWorker software package.
When the Remove NetWorker Metadata checkbox is cleared, the following NetWorker
files remain in the
NetWorker_installation_dir \nsr directory after the software is
uninstalled:
• All log files
• All deduplication data
• All index entries
• All mm entries
• All res files
• All files in the directory
• All files in the debug directory
6. Click Remove, then click Finish.
Uninstalling the NetWorker and Console server software by using wmic
Use the Windows Management Instrumentation command-line utility, wmic.exe to
uninstall the NetWorker software when the extracted NetWorker software package is not
available on the Windows system.
To uninstall the NetWorker software by using the wmic.exe utility:
1. Log in to the Windows computer with a local administrator user and open a command
prompt window.
2. When the host is a Console server, uninstall the Console server software before the
NetWorker software:
c:\>wmic product where name="NetWorker Management Console Server"
uninstall
3. Review the output to confirm the uninstall is successful. The message Method
execution successful indicates a successful uninstall.
For example: