Uninstalling the activation engine

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If you need to uninstall the activation engine from a virtual machine, follow the steps in this topic.

Before you run the uninstallation commands, check if the activation engine is installed on the virtual machine. To check if the activation engine RPMs are installed, run # rpm -qa | grep activation on the virtual machine.
To check the status of the IBM i activation engine, run CALL PGM(QSYS/QAENGDSP). One of the following messages displays:
  • THE SYSTEM ACTIVATION ENGINE IS ENABLED

    The activation engine runs the next time the virtual machine is powered on and modifies the system configuration if the ovf-env.xml file is mounted.

  • THE SYSTEM ACTIVATION ENGINE IS DISABLED

    The activation engine does not run the next time the virtual machine is powered on.

  • THE SYSTEM ACTIVATION ENGINE COMPLETED

    The activation engine configured the virtual machine and does not run the next time the virtual machine is powered on.

To uninstall the activation engine, run the following command:CALL PGM(QSYS/QAENGCHG) PARM(*DISABLE)
Note: To disable and eject the virtual optical volume that containing the open virtualization format (OVF) environment file, run CALL PGM(QSYS/QAENGCHG) PARM(*DISABLEEJ). This allows the virtual machine to power on without executing the activation engine.