Removing the Product Components on Linux systems
You can have one or more BigFix components installed on a local system and you can decide to remove one or all of them at the same time.
About this task
Procedure
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Look for the installed BigFix RPM
packages by entering the following command:
rpm -qa | grep BES
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Remove the Server, the WebUI, the Client, and Web Reports RPM files:
rpm -e BESWebUI rpm -e BESWebReportsServer rpm -e BESRootServer rpm -e BESRelay rpm -e BESClientDeployTool rpm -e BESAgent
Note: You cannot remove BESAgent until you remove all components depending on it (BESRootServer, WebUI, and so on). -
Remove the following files and folders:
Warning: If you do not plan to remove all BigFix components, keep the folder "/var/opt/BESCommon".
Where: BES* is a prefix followed by the name of a BigFix component, for example "BESClient"./etc/opt/BES* /opt/BES* /tmp/BES /var/log/BES* /var/opt/BES*
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Remove the BFENT and BESREPOR local databases:
or the BFENT and BESREPOR remote databases:su - db2inst1 db2 drop db BFENT db2 drop db BESREPOR
su - db2inst1 db2 attach to TEM_REM user <UserName> using <Password> db2 drop db BFENT db2 drop db BESREPOR db2 detach db2 uncatalog node TEM_REM