Appendix A Cisco Security Agent Installation and Overview
Installing the Linux Agent
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Installing Management Center for Cisco Security Agents 5.2
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Caution On Linux systems, if you upgrade the kernel version or boot a different kernel
version than the initial version where the agent was installed, you must uninstall
and reinstall the agent.
Uninstall Linux Agent
To uninstall the Cisco Security Agent, do the following.
Step 1 You must know the version number of the currently installed agent. Keep in mind
that upgrades may have been installed since the first installation. When you know
the version, run the following, using the correct version number.
# rpm -qf /opt/CSCOcsa/bin/ciscosecd
CSAagent-5.2-218
Step 2 Remove that rpm with rpm -ev, e.g.
# rpm -ev CSAagent-5.2-218
Caution If an agent is running a policy which contains an Agent self protection rule, the
agent cannot be uninstalled unless this rule is disabled. (Administrators can
generally do this through a remote management session if the default policies
applied to the CSA MC system are not changed to restrict this access.) See Agent
self protection in the User Guide for details on this rule type.
You can uninstall the linux agent regardless of policies if you login using single
user mode.