Removing the Primary Server on Linux systems

To uninstall the IBM BigFix Server, you must stop the services and remove the Server, the Client, and Web Reports components, and the related databases.

About this task

To uninstall the primary server on Linux systems, perform the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Remove the Server, the Client, and Web Reports rpms files: 
    rpm -e BESRootServer-9.2.0.xxxx-rhel.x86_64
rpm -e BESAgent-9.2.0.xxxx-rhe5.x86_64
rpm -e BESWebReportsServer-9.2.0.xxxx-rhel.x86_64
  2. Remove the following directories:
    rm -fr /var/opt/BESClient
rm -fr /etc/opt/BESClient
rm -fr /var/opt/BESServer
rm -fr /etc/opt/BESServer
rm -fr /var/opt/BESWebReportsServer
  3. Remove the BFENT and BESREPOR local databases:
    su - db2inst1 
db2 drop db BFENT
db2 drop db BESREPOR
    or the the BFENT and BESREPOR remote databases:
    db2 uncatalog db BFENT
db2 uncatalog db BESREPOR
db2 uncatalog node TEM_RER