Streamlined Uninstall

While testing various evaluation versions of SolarWinds, I tried to use the same test server. However, even after following the (very messy!) instructions to uninstall Orion products I ended up just wiping the server.

With this, I wish there was a single uninstaller that could be run to uninstall all Orion based products on a server.

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josh.haberman

Here's my shameless Monday bump.

jhciotti

This is definitely something that is needed very much. It is pretty much impossible to perform a "clean install" scenario if the application itself gets corrupted in some way or if you want to remove a module that may contain multiple installs like NCM. A "Solarwinds Product Uninstaller" would go a long way to assist with support too. The uninstaller should be able to detect what products (and remnants) are installed and be able to selectively remove the entire module including removing it from visibility in the License Manager. Any evals you install show up in the License Manager indefinitely from what I can tell. The License Manager should only correlate what products are actually installed on the server.

ecklerwr1

The uninstallers never really uninstalled everything. I recently ran into this bad situation with the LEM Reporting... I couldn't get it working without going to thwack to find out that not only did I need to uninstall but also delete a bunch of directories to get it to re-install. This wasn't a demo it was my production system and a client I use to access the reporting for LEM.