Uninstalling the Server on Windows in silent mode

Perform the following steps to uninstall the BMC Application Diagnostics Server on Windows computers using silent mode, which requires no user interaction during uninstallation.

Warning

All the data stored for the component you are uninstalling will be deleted. To retain this data, you must back up the database before continuing with the uninstallation process.

To uninstall all Server components

  1. Log on with administrator privileges to the server on which BMC Application Diagnostics Server is installed.
  2. Change the MySQL root password to the default password, admysql.
  3. In a command line, navigate to <InstallationDirectory>\UninstallBMCADOPServer folder, for example C:\Program Files\BMC Software\BMC Application Diagnostics\UninstallBMCADOPServer.

  4. To silently uninstall the BMC Application Diagnostics Collector and the BMC Application Diagnostics Portal, run the following command:

    uninstall.cmd -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE=adop-silent-option-uninstall.txt

    This is the default configuration.

To uninstall a specific Server component

  1. Log on with administrator privileges to the server on which BMC Application Diagnostics Server is installed.
  2. Change the MySQL root password to the default password, admysql.
  3. In the <InstallationDirectory>\UninstallBMCADOPServer folder open the adop-silent-option-uninstall file in edit mode.

  4. Add a hash sign (#) before the component that you do not want to uninstall:

    # Uninstall BMC Application Diagnostics Portal
    -U bmc_application_diagnostics_portal
    # Uninstall BMC Application Diagnostics Collector
    -U bmc_application_diagnostics_collector

  5. Run the silent uninstall command:

    uninstall.cmd -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE=adop-silent-option-uninstall

Note

You can view the uninstallation log files in the %temp% folder.

Related topics

Installing-the-BMC-Application-Diagnostics-Server
Upgrading

 

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