Uninstallation of IBM Security Verify Directory and corequisite software

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You might want to remove IBM® Security Verify Directory and its corequisite software if you plan use the computer for a different purpose or plan to retire your computer.

You can use operating system utilities for uninstallation of IBM Security Verify Directory.

If you want to remove IBM Security Verify Directory from your computer, consider the following conditions before uninstallation:

  1. You must stop all IBM Security Verify Directory client and server processes.
    • Directory server
    • Administration server
    • LDAP traces
    • Web Administration Tool and the application server that is associated with it
    • Custom LDAP applications
  2. If you plan to run IBM Security Verify Directory installation again on the computer, you do not require to delete directory server instance or unconfigure DB2® database from the instance. If you remove IBM Security Verify Directory from your computer, the directory server instances are left intact unless you manually remove or unconfigure them.
  3. The idsldap user and group that were created during the installation of IBM Security Verify Directory are left on the system after uninstallation. You must consider the additional conditions before the uninstallation of IBM Security Verify Directory form AIX® or Linux™.
    • If you do not want the idsldap user and group that is defined, use the operating system utilities to remove them. The idsldap user and group are required by both the proxy server and the full directory server and they must exist on your computer if you contain IBM Security Verify Directory installed.
    • If you remove the idsldap user and do not remove the home directory of the user, problems can occur when the idsldap user is created during installation of IBM Security Verify Directory. Therefore, be sure to remove the home directory of the idsldap user if you remove the idsldap user. If you use the userdel command to remove the idsldap user, be sure to use the -r parameter to remove the home directory, userdel -r idsldap.
  4. On Windows™, the administration server and directory server services are removed during the uninstallation of IBM Security Verify Directory. The services are not replaced during the installation of IBM Security Verify Directory. You can use the idsslapd command to add the server service, and the idsdiradm command to add the administration server service. For more information about the idsslapd and idsdiradm commands, see IBM Security Verify Directory Command Reference.