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Manually Remove Leftover Files after Uninstall (97721/96217)

Symptom:

Certain binary files are left on my system after I remove the CA SiteMinder® SessionLinker.

Solution:

1. For web servers in the Windows operating environment, remove the SessionLinker Daemon from the web_agent_home/bin directory with the following command:

   SessionLinkerDaemon -u
   

2. Manually delete the following files:

CA SiteMinder® Policy Server

Remove the following file that applies to your operating environment:

• (Windows) policy_server_home\bin\NPSSessionLinker.dll
• (UNIX or Linux) policy_server_home\lib\libnpssessionlinker.so

Apache Web Server (UNIX or Linux)

Remove the following files from your system:

• (Apache 2.2.x) web_agent_home/bin/libnpsapache22sessionlinker.so
• (Apache 2.0.x) web_agent_home/bin/libnpsapache2sessionlinker.so
• web_agent_home/bin/sessionlinkd (kill the related process first)

Remove the following entries from the httpd.conf file:

• LoadModule sesslink_module "/CA/webagent/bin/libnpsapache22sessionlinker.so"
• SessLinkInit "/CA/sessionlinker-64/SessionLinker.log" log_level_number

Apache Web Server (Windows)

Remove the following files from your system:

• web_agent_home\bin\NPSApache22SessionLinker.dll
• web_agent_home\bin\SessionLinkerDaemon.exe

Remove the following entries from the httpd.conf file:

• LoadModule sesslink_module "C:\Program Files\CA\webagent\bin\NPSApache22SessionLinker.dll"
• SessLinkInit "C:\Program Files\CA\sessionlinker\SessionLinker.log" log_level_number

For Sun Java System Web Server (UNIX or Linux)

Remove the following files from your system:

• <webagent>/bin/libnpsnsapisessionlinker.so

Remove the Load Module entry for SessionLinker and Log file entry(if present) entries from magnus.conf:

• Init fn="load-modules" shlib="/dir0/ngtyerpc/CA/webagent/bin/libnpsnsapisessionlinker.so" funcs="NPSSessionLinkerInit,NPSSessionLinker,NPSSessionLinkerError"
• Init fn="NPSSessionLinkerInit" logfile="/dir0/ngtyerpc/sessionlinker/sessionlinker-64/NPSNSAPISessionLinker.log" loglevel=3

Remove the following entries from obj.conf:

• PathCheck fn="NPSSessionLinker"
• Error fn="NPSSessionLinkerError" reason="SESSIONLINKER_ERRORREASON"