Removing The Ds Storage Manager From A Windows Operating System - IBM DS8000 User Manual

Removing the DS Storage Manager from a Windows operating system

Complete this task to remove the IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager from
your Windows operating system by using the Windows Add/Remove Programs
facility.
1. Log on to your Windows operating system with administrator authority.
2. Navigate to your Windows Control Panel and open the Add/Remove program
3. Scroll the list of currently installed programs and click the listing for IBM
4. Click the Change/Remove button, and the Welcome window for the Uninstaller
5. Click Next to continue or click Cancel to exit the removal process. When you
6. Click Remove to continue or Cancel to stop the removal and exit the
7. Click Finish to complete the removal process and exit the GUI part of the
8. Close the Add/Remove Programs window.
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facility.
System Storage DS8000 Storage Manager.
is displayed.
click Next, the Confirmation window is displayed that shows the directory
from which the IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager GUI program will be
removed.
uninstallation process. Click Back to return to the previous window. When you
click Remove, the Uninstallation Progress window is displayed. When the
uninstallation process is finished, the Finish window is displayed, which
contains a statement about the success or failure of the uninstallation process.
During the uninstallation process, the following system checks occur:
v A check of your system to detect if DS Storage Manager Server is used by
other programs on the system and if not used, removes it from the system.
Otherwise, the DS Storage Manager Server is not removed from your system.
v A check of your system to detect if DS Network Interface Server is used by
other programs on the system and if not used, removes it from the system.
Otherwise, the DS Network Interface Server is not removed from your
system.
v A check to determine whether any of the files to be removed are locked
because they are in use by another process. If a locked file has been detected,
you can perform the following:
a. From Windows services, set the IBM WebSphere Application Server
V6.1 - DS Storage Manager and IBM DS Network Interface Server
services to the Manual startup type.
b. Reboot the computer.
c. Proceed once again with the removal of the DS Storage Manager.
Another reason that files can be locked is because you changed the host
name where you installed the DS Storage Manager. See the DS Storage
Manager installation instructions for more information on host names and
how to resolve a changed host name.
When the uninstallation process is finished, the Uninstaller Finish window is
displayed. The Uninstaller Finish window provides a statement about the
success or failure of the uninstallation process.
If the uninstall program cannot remove some information from your system,
the Reboot window is displayed. You must reboot so that previously locked
files are released and automatically deleted.
uninstallation program.