There are times when you are required to uninstall OpenText Identity Governance. You would uninstall OpenText Identity Governance in a lab environment or during an upgrade procedure. The OpenText Identity Governance components run against Apache Tomcat and Zulu OpenJDK, to perform an upgrade you must uninstall the OpenText Identity Governance components, upgrade Zulu OpenJDK and Apache Tomcat, and then reinstall the OpenText Identity Governance components. For more information about upgrading, see Section 13.0, Upgrading OpenText Identity Governance.
OpenText Identity Governance does come with an uninstall utility that you use to uninstall the product. OSP contains a separate uninstall utility. The uninstall utility for Identity Reporting is the OpenText Identity Governance uninstall utility. If you have installed Identity Reporting and OpenText Identity Governance together on the same server, the uninstall utility removes OpenText Identity Governance and Identity Reporting at the same time. If you have installed Identity Reporting on a separate server without OpenText Identity Governance, the uninstall utility only removes Identity Reporting.
IMPORTANT:You must ensure that all of the files are removed from the server before reinstalling the same version of OpenText Identity Governance or a new version of Identity Governance for the upgrade procedure.
You can also uninstall the components using the guided method, console method, and silent method in the same way that you install these components. The silent uninstall method does not require a silent properties file. It does not require any interaction to complete the uninstallation. For more information, see Section 1.3, Understanding the Uninstallation Methods.
IMPORTANT:If you installed OpenText Identity Governance and OSP on the same server, you must uninstall them in the reverse order in which you installed them. For example, if you installed OpenText Identity Governance, then installed OSP, you must uninstall OSP, then uninstall OpenText Identity Governance.
Use the following information to uninstall the OpenText Identity Governance components.