Performing the Uninstall of HCL Digital Experience
If you have a complete and functional uninstallation program, you can uninstall HCL Digital Experience only or both HCL Digital Experience and IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.
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If you uninstall as a non-root user, verify that all product directories and files have the correct permissions. If not, set their permissions to the non-root user.
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Stop all the servers. For specific instructions, go to Starting and stopping servers, deployment managers, and node agents.
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Verify that you are not running any other installation or uninstallation programs.
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Choose one of the following uninstallation commands to uninstall HCL Digital Experience and WebSphere Application Server:
- Graphical user interface: Start the Installation Manager and then select Uninstall.
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Response file: From your installation source directory, run the ./imcl input pathtoresponse.xml -log pathtologfiles task.
Important
Do not place the response file in a path that contains a space and do not put a space in the file name.
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Console mode: Run the
./imcl -c
task from the install_root/Installation Manager/eclipse/tools directory. Then, type 5.Restriction
You can select only one package group to uninstall at a time. First, uninstall the HCL Digital Experience package. Then, uninstall the WebSphere Application Server package.
During the uninstallation, remove all profiles that you do not want to keep for future installations.
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Remove any remaining HCL Digital Experience directories from your directory structure.
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If you uninstall HCL Digital Experience only, go to the AppServer_root directory and remove the following files:
- lib/ext/commons-codec-1.3.jar
- lib/ext/commons-httpclient-3.0.1.jar
- lib/ext/openid4java-full-0.9.5.jar
- lib/ext/wp.auth.base.sua_RedirectServletFilter.jar
- lib/ext/wp.auth.base.sua_loginmodule.jar
- lib/ext/wp.auth.tai.jar
- lib/wp.user.connections.jar
- lib/wp.wire.jar
- plugins/com.ibm.patch.was.plugin.jar
- plugins/com.ibm.wp.was.plugin.jar
- plugins/wp.ext.jar
- properties/jndi.properties
- Examine all running processes and stop ones that contain the PortalServer_root directory. Restart the server, especially if you intend to reinstall HCL Digital Experience on the same server.
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Go to Deleting specific cluster members for information about how to delete a cluster member from the deployment manager.
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Complete the following steps to delete the HCL Portal server from the deployment manager:
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Log on to the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console.
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Click Servers > Application Servers.
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Select the check box for the HCL Portal server you want to delete.
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Click Delete.
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After uninstalling HCL Digital Experience and WebSphere Application Server, you can also delete the Installation Manager. Run the
./uninstall
command from the ibm/InstallationManager/uninstall directory.