Uninstall IBM® Connections
in console mode. This method is convenient if you cannot or do not
want to use the graphical mode.
About this task
Use console mode to uninstall the product in a non-graphical
environment. This mode is useful when you have to uninstall IBM® Connections on a system that
does not have a video card. In steps where you enter custom information,
such as server details, you can type P at any
time to return to the previous input choice in that step. However,
you cannot type P to return to a previous step.
Uninstalling IBM® Connections uses IBM® Installation Manager to manage the installation
process.
To uninstall IBM® Connections
in console mode, 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.
- Open a command prompt and change to the IM_root/eclipse/tools directory.
- Start
the installation wizard by opening the following file:
- AIX® or Linux™: ./imcl -c
- Windows™: imcl.exe
-c
- Select the applications that you want to remove and then
type N to proceed.
- Type U to start removing applications.
-
To check the details of the procedure, open the log file named
Uninstall.log in the connections_root/logs directory.
- 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
Results
You uninstalled IBM® Connections.