Post-Installation Configurations; Uninstalling Novell Sentinel Log Manager; Ping Timeout Setting; Section 3.6, "Post-Installation Configurations - Novell SENTINEL LOG MANAGER 1.0.0.5 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 03-31-2010 Installation Manual

3.6 Post-Installation Configurations

This section includes several recommendations to improve system performance.

3.6.1 Ping Timeout Setting

Novell recommends that all users must change the wait period for ping responses in the
file to prevent issues when the Sentinel Log Manager server is heavily loaded (in an
server.conf
high traffic setup).
1 Log in to the Sentinel Log Manager server as
2 Open the
server.conf
directory.
config
3 Find the
wrapper.ping.timeout=60
wrapper.ping.timeout=0
4 Save the file.
5 Restart the Sentinel Log Manager process by using the following command:
Install_Directory/bin/server.sh restart

3.7 Uninstalling Novell Sentinel Log Manager

To uninstall Sentinel Log Manager, run the uninstall script and then perform the manual cleanup
steps given below:
1 Log in to the Sentinel Log Manager server as
2 To stop the Sentinel Log Manager service, execute the following command:
/etc/init.d/sentinel_log_mgr stop
3 To run the uninstallation script, execute the following command:
/opt/novell/sentinel_log_mgr_1.0_x86-64/setup/root_uninstall_service.sh
4 Delete the Sentinel Log Manager home directory and its contents.
rm -rf /opt/novell/sentinel_log_mgr_1.0_x86-64
If you want to retain or remove any information related to the novell user and group, use the
following steps:
5 (Conditional) If you do not want to retain any information related to the novell user, run the
following command to remove the user, its home directory, and the group:
userdel -r novell && groupdel novell
6 (Conditional) If you want to retain the
steps to cleanup the Sentinel Log Manager settings that are stored in novell users home
directory:
6a Remove the following environment variable entries from the novell users profile in
~novell/.bashrz
APP_HOME=/opt/novell/sentinel_log_mgr_1.0_x86-64
export PATH=$APP_HOME/bin:$PATH
6b Remove the dbauser entry from the PostgreSQL file:
novell
file for editing. This file is located in the
setting and modify it to:
root
user and its home directory, then perform these
novell
:
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