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Remove a Cluster

When necessary, you can remove a vertical Service View cluster. Sample reasons for doing so include the following conditions:

• This computer becomes obsolete.
• You want to install clustering on a different computer instead of this one.
• This cluster is no longer needed.

Note: You perform this procedure once for each cluster that you want to remove. Each time you perform this procedure, you update the same cluster.properties file before you run the ant command.

To remove a cluster

1. Open the cluster.properties file for editing.
2. Specify the number of the cluster to remove in the following parameter, as follows:

   view.node.id=number

   Specifies the number of the cluster to remove.

   For example, to remove Cluster 2, specify the following:

   view.node.id=2
   

3. Save and close the file.
4. Navigate to %USM_HOME% in Windows Explorer and double-click the usm.cmd file.

   The CA Service Catalog command prompt opens, with the location set to the %USM_HOME% folder path.

5. Enter the following command at that prompt:

   ant uninstall-view-node
   

The cluster specified in the cluster.properties file is removed. The Windows service for that cluster is also removed.

You have removed a cluster node. Next, verify that the load balancer setup no longer references this cluster.