Symantec Uninstalling Critical System Protection and Management Agents on UNIX Systems

Installing UNIX agents

Uninstalling agents manually

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6On HP-UX, type and run the following command: swremove SYMCcsp

7On Tru64, type and run the following command: setld -d SYMCSP513

8(Solaris and Linux) If the uninstall completes successfully, run the following command to restart the computer:

init 6

Computers running HP-UX and AIX do not need to be restarted.

Uninstalling agents manually

If an agent installation is canceled or an error occurs during installation, the installation might be corrupted, and might prevent you from uninstalling an agent using the native package commands.

The agent runs the following daemons:

■sisipsdaemon

■sisidsdaemon

■sisipsutildaemon (Solaris and Linux)

Uninstalling Solaris agents manually

You can manually uninstall Solaris agents.

To uninstall Solaris agents manually

1Start the management console, and set the policy for the agent to uninstall to the Null policy.

The agent prevents you from installing and removing agent-related files if it enforces a restrictive prevention policy.

If the Solaris agent is not communicating with the management console, disable the agent, and then continue with the uninstall.

See “Disabling and enabling Solaris agents” on page 91.

2Open a Terminal window on the computer that runs the agent to uninstall and become superuser.

3Run the following command to determine the agent daemons PIDs: ps -ef grep sis

4(Optional) If the daemon PIDs do not appear, do the following to display the daemon PIDs and stop the agent daemons:

Run the following commands: