How to uninstall GroundWork Monitor

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Overview

The uninstall process removes GroundWork Monitor Enterprise and deletes the remaining artifacts of /usr/local/groundwork. Specifically, the /usr/local/groundwork/users directory and file tree, the PostgreSQL database, and all local plugins added to the system.

Steps

1. Open a PuTTY session (or similar) to the GroundWork server.
2. As user root, execute the following command to start the uninstall process:

   /usr/local/groundwork/uninstall

   • You will be prompted with: Do you want to uninstall GroundWork Monitor Enterprise and all of its modules?. To continue the uninstall, type Y and press Enter.
   • You will be prompted with: Do you wish to delete all saved datafile too? WARNING: This includes the entire /usr/local/groundwork/users directory and file tree, the PostgreSQL database, and all local plugins added to the system. To continue the uninstall, type y and press Enter.
   • When uninstall has completed you should receive the following prompt:

     Info: Uninstallation completed
     Press [Enter] to continue:

3. On some systems users are left behind, these users can be removed with the following commands:

   userdel -f postgres

   userdel -f nagios

   userdel -f gdma

4. Some user generated data is intentionally not removed with an uninstall. If you wish to purge this data as well you can remove it:

   rm -rf /usr/local/groundwork/*

5. The /usr/local/groundwork/ directory can now be deleted unless it is a filesystem mount point:

   rm -rf /usr/local/groundwork