Uninstalling Cognos via the graphical user interface wizard
If the Cognos-Metrics installation does not complete properly, you can uninstall the primary BI server, the secondary BI server, and Transformer using the Cognos® installation wizard.
About this task
Procedure
- Launch Installation Manager.
./imcl -c
- Select Uninstall.
- Choose the Cognos package group for uninstall.
=====> IBM Installation Manager> Uninstall Select one package group to uninstall from: 1. [ ] IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V8.0 2. [ ] IBM Cognos Wizard C. Cancel -----> [C]
- Choose the Cognos package for uninstall.
- On the WebSphere Application Server information panel,
start the server1 on Cognos node profile to connect to the node and
retrieve node information.Note: No input is needed to remove Transformer. So if you uninstall Transformer, you can do that directly.
- After validation completes, click Next to go to next panel.
- Click Uninstall, then allow the uninstall process to complete.
- After uninstall completes, check the WebSphere Application
Server administrative console of the appropriate system to ensure
that the following items no longer appear:
- On Deployment Manager, the Cognos application is removed
- On Deployment Manager, there is no Cognos server
- On Deployment Manager, there is no Cognos node
- On Deployment Manager, there is no Cognos cluster
- On the node where Cognos was installed, there is no Cognos application
- On the node where Cognos was installed, there is no Cognos server
- Check whether Metrics-associated scheduled tasks have been removed
as follows:
- On Windows: In Active Tasks list. , MetricsCubeDailyRefresh and MetricsCubeWeeklyRebuild do not appear in the
- On Unix or Linux: Execute run crontab -l. You should not see either Cognos_Transformer_install_path/metricsmodel/daily-refresh.sh or Cognos_Transformer_install_path/metricsmodel/weekly-rebuild.sh.