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Uninstall a SiteMinder WSS Agent

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Set JRE in PATH Variable Before Uninstalling the CA SiteMinder® Agent

Uninstall a SiteMinder WSS Agent

Set JRE in PATH Variable Before Uninstalling the CA SiteMinder® Agent

On Windows and UNIX systems, when you are uninstalling a CA SiteMinder® Agent, make sure the JRE is in the PATH variable or the uninstallation program stops and issues one of the following error messages:

Follow these steps:

On Windows

  1. Go to the Control Panel.
  2. Double-click System.
  3. In the Environment Variables dialog, add the location of the JRE to the PATH system variable.

    For example, C:\j2sdkversion_number\jre\bin

On UNIX

Run the following commands:

  1. PATH=$PATH:JRE/bin
    JRE

    Specifies the location of your JRE.

    For example, /usr/bin/j2sdkversion_number/jre

  2. export PATH

Uninstall a SiteMinder WSS Agent

To uninstall a SiteMinder WSS Agent, run the CA SiteMinder® Web Services Security uninstall wizard.

Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the WSS_HOME\install_config_info (Windows) or WSS_HOME/install_config_info (UNIX) directory and run the CA SiteMinder® Web Services Security uninstall wizard to remove core CA SiteMinder® Web Services Security components:
    WSS_HOME

    Specifies the CA SiteMinder® Web Services Security installation location.

    Important! If you are running this wizard on Windows Server 2008, run the executable file with Administrator permissions, even if you are logged into the system as an Administrator. For more information, see the CA SiteMinder® Web Services Security Release Notes.

    The uninstall wizard starts.

  2. Choose whether you want to perform a complete uninstall or whether to uninstall specific features and proceed.
  3. If you chose to uninstall only specific features, select the installed components that you want to uninstall and proceed.

    The uninstall wizard removes all selected CA SiteMinder® Web Services Security components.

  4. Restart the server.