Uninstalling a deployment
Uninstall a deployment of IBM® Connections.
About this task
Notes:
- Deleting IBM Connections data files makes the original deployment unrecoverable. If you plan to reinstall IBM Connections and use your old data, do not delete the data files.
- You do not need to remove IBM Installation Manager files. These files might be associated with other IBM applications.
To uninstall IBM Connections, complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Start the IBM WebSphere® Application Server Deployment Manager.
- Stop all instances of WebSphere Application Server, including node agents, in your deployment.
- To uninstall a deployment of Connections, start the IBM Installation Manager and click Uninstall.
- Select IBM Connections and click Next.
- Clear the check boxes of the applications that you want to remove.
- Enter the details of your WebSphere Application Server environment and then click Next.
- In the Summary page, verify that the details are correct.
- Click Modify to begin removing applications
- On the Deployment Manager system, delete the contents of the following (or equivalent) temp folder. For example, on Linux: /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/temp.
- On each node system, delete the contents of the following (or equivalent) temp folder: For example, on Linux: /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/temp.
- On each node, remove the log files for each of the IBM Connections clusters. For example on Linux, delete the IBM Connections clusters folders in the folder: /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/logs.
- When the process is complete, restart the Deployment Manager.
- Restart all instances of WebSphere Application Server, including node agents.
- Synchronize the nodes.
- To check the details of the procedure, open the log files in the connections_root/logs directory. Each IBM Connections application that you uninstalled has a log file that uses the following naming format: application_nameUninstall.log, where application_name is the name of an IBM Connections application.
- Optional: If you plan to reinstall IBM Connections, remove the following files:
Notes:
- Except where noted, remove these files from the system that hosts the Deployment Manager.
- Because some of these files might be used by other programs, it is possible that you are not allowed to remove all of the following files.
- IBM Connections
installation files: connections_root
Note: If you did not install IBM Connections in the default directory, delete the directory where you installed the product.
- IBM Connections shared data: Delete the directories that you specified for shared data when you installed IBM Connections.
- IBM Connections
local data: On each node, delete the directories that you specified
for local data when you installed IBM Connections.
Note: Deleting IBM Connections data files makes the original deployment unrecoverable. If you plan to reinstall IBM Connections and use your old data, do not delete the data files.
- IBM Connections configuration files: Delete the profile_root/config/cells/cell_name/LotusConnections-config directory, where cell_name is the name of your WebSphere Application Server cell.
- If it is present, delete the registry.xml file from the profile_root/config/cells/cell_name directory.
- Delete all .py files from the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/profile_name/bin directory
on the deployment manager server as follows:
- AIX/Linux: /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/profile_name/bin
- Windows: drive:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\profile_name\bin
- Clear the WebSphere Application Server profile's temp and wstemp folders.
For example:
- AIX/Linux:
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/profile_name/temp
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/profile_name/wstemp
- Windows:
drive:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\profile_name\temp
drive:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\profile_name\wstemp
- AIX/Linux:
Results
You uninstalled IBM Connections.
If you plan to reinstall Connections, refer to Migrating and upgrading.