Symantec manual Uninstalling VCS 5.0 RU3, Removing VCS 5.0 RU3 RPMs

154Uninstalling VCS Uninstalling VCS 5.0 RU3

■If you have manually edited any of the VCS configuration files, you need to reformat them.

Uninstalling VCS 5.0 RU3

You must meet the following conditions to use the uninstallvcs program to uninstall VCS on all nodes in the cluster at one time:

■Make sure that the communication exists between systems. By default, the uninstaller uses ssh.

■Make sure you can execute ssh or rsh commands as superuser on all nodes in the cluster.

■Make sure that the ssh or rsh is configured to operate without requests for passwords or passphrases.

If you cannot meet the prerequisites, then you must run the uninstallvcs program on each node in the cluster.

The example demonstrates how to uninstall VCS using the uninstallvcs program. The uninstallvcs program uninstalls VCS on two nodes: galaxy nebula. The example procedure uninstalls VCS from all nodes in the cluster.

Removing VCS 5.0 RU3 RPMs

The program stops the VCS processes that are currently running during the uninstallation process.

To uninstall VCS

1Log in as superuser from the node where you want to uninstall VCS.

2Start uninstallvcs program.

#cd /opt/VRTS/install

#./uninstallvcs

The program specifies the directory where the logs are created. The program displays a copyright notice and a description of the cluster:

VCS configuration files exist on this system with the following information:

Cluster Name: VCS_cluster2

Cluster ID Number: 7

Systems: galaxy nebula

Service Groups: ClusterService groupA groupB