Uninstalling Updates from a Specific Client
Uninstalling Updates from Multiple Clients
Uninstalling Updates from Unix/Linux/Macintosh Clients
1. | From the CommCell Browser, right-click the <commserve computer> from navigate to All Tasks | Add/Remove Software and click Remove Updates. |
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2. | Select the appropriate job options for your uninstall.
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3. | Select DBUpdates. |
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4. | Select Client Computers to uninstall all updates on all client computers. |
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7. | Click OK. |
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8. | You can track the progress of the job from the Job Controller window. |
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1. | Navigate to the client's Base folder. | |
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Execute the following command: RemoveUpdates.exe –silent -rebootreq [-vm <instance name>] -undo all | bin | db [-nostartsvc|-startsvc] Silent uninstall of individual updates starts from the command line in a non-interactive mode. |
Options –rebootreq will reboot the machine if the update uninstall requires a reboot (e.g., for driver updates) -vm is the name of the instance from which updates should be uninstalled -undo will reverse the uninstall of one or more updates per the indicated value. all will reverse the uninstall of all the updates on the client bin will reverse the uninstall of the previous (most recent) update db will reverse the uninstall of the previous (most recent) SQL database update on the CommServe. -nostartsvc will not start the services after silent uninstall. This can be useful to run additional silent uninstalls on a non-cluster installation. -startsvc will start the services after silent uninstall. |
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Silent uninstall of updates completes. Updates are uninstalled and the CommServe Database updated. |
Diagnostics
Possible exit status values are: 0 - Successful completion. 1 - CLI usage failures, due to the use of an unsupported option or missing argument. 2 - Any other failure. |
1. | Log on to the Unix client as root. | |
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If you don't have multiple instances installed on the computer, skip
this step.
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Select the option identifying the updates that you want to remove. You can remove all the updates or revert to a previous update version (undo the last set of updates). |
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Enter y to continue with the removal. Services are stopped and the update removal starts. |
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Enter Y to start the services. The updates are uninstalled and the client computer updated. |
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