Uninstalling Cross Platform Management Packs and Agents

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1

When you no longer need a management pack, you can delete it by using the Operations console. When you delete a management pack, all the settings and thresholds that are associated with it are removed from Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. The associated .mp or .xml file is not deleted from the hard disk of the management server. You can delete a management pack only if you have first deleted dependent management packs.

There are three ways to uninstall the cross platform management packs and agents.

  1. Delete selected UNIX or Linux system management packs from the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console.

  2. Delete an agent from Operations Manager 2007 R2, and uninstall the agent from the monitored computer. It will be uninstalled first from the UNIX or Linux computer.

  3. Delete the agent from Operations Manager without uninstalling it on the UNIX or Linux host.

Use the following procedures to uninstall agents.

To delete a UNIX or Linux system management pack from the Operations console

  1. Open the Operations console with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administrators profile.

  2. Select the Administration view.

  3. In the navigation pane, click Management Packs.

  4. In the Management Packs pane, right-click the pack you want to remove.

  5. Click Delete from the context menu.

To delete a UNIX or Linux system agent from Operations Manager 2007 R2 and the monitored computer

  1. Open the Operations console with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administrators profile.

  2. Select the Administration view.

  3. In the navigation pane, click UNIX/Linux Servers.

  4. In the UNIX/Linux Servers pane, right-click the monitored computer agent you want to delete.

  5. Select Uninstall from the context menu.

Delete an agent from Operations Manager without uninstalling it on the UNIX or Linux host

  1. Open the Operations console with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administrators profile.

  2. Select the Administration view.

  3. In the navigation pane, click UNIX/Linux Servers.

  4. In the UNIX/Linux Servers pane, right-click the monitored computer agent you want to remove.

  5. Select Delete from the context menu.

After the UNIX or Linux computer has been deleted from the list of monitored computers, you must log on to the monitored computer and manually uninstall the agent. Use the following procedures to manually uninstall agents from UNIX and Linux computers.

To uninstall the agent from Red Hat enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux enterprise servers:

  1. Log on as the root user, and uninstall the agent by typing

    rpm –e scx

  2. To verify that the package is uninstalled, type

    rpm –q scx

To uninstall the agent from Solaris computers

  1. Log on as the root user, and uninstall the agent by typing

    pkgrm MSFTscx

  2. To verify that the package is uninstalled, type

    pkginfo –I MSFTscx

To uninstall the agent from HP-UX

  1. Log on as the root user, and uninstall the agent by typing

    swremove scx

  2. To verify that the package is uninstalled, type

    swlist scx

To uninstall the agent from IBM AIX

  1. Log on as the root user, and uninstall the agent by typing

    installp –u scx

  2. To verify that the package is uninstalled, type

    lslpp –L scx.rte