To Delete a Profile

In this procedure, you delete a profile that you created. Users of all levels can perform this procedure in the console.

You cannot delete profiles in the following circumstances:

• The profile was created by another user.

• The profile is currently being deployed in an active job.

• The profile is scheduled to be deployed, and the owner of the job selected that the job not be updated with profile changes.

1. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar, click the Profiles button.

   • From the Tools menu, choose Profiles.

     The Profiles window opens.

2. Select a profile from the list.

3. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar of the Profiles window, click the Delete button.

   • Right-click the selected profile and choose Delete.

4. In the confirmation dialog box, click Delete again.

Example 9–4 To Create a Postfix Mail Server Profile – Example

The previous procedures explained how to create, edit, copy, and delete profiles, in general. This procedure is a specific example of a profile for a mail server.

1. To open the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise Console, type uce_console in a terminal shell and log in with a valid user name and password.

2. From the Tools menu, choose Profiles.

   The Profiles window opens.

3. Right-click in the Profiles window and choose New.

   The Profile Editor window opens.

4. From the drop-down list in the tool bar of the Profile Editor, select a distribution.

5. Give the profile a name.

   For example, you might name the profile PostfixMailServer.

6. Type a description of the profile.

7. In the components list, find postfix, right-click it and choose Required.

   See To Find Components for details on searching the Components list.

   Required postfix appears in the Actions list.

8. Find sendmail, right-click it and choose Not Allowed.

   Not Allowed sendmail appears in the Actions list.

9. Right-click in the Actions list and choose Multi-Distribution.

   The Multi Distributions window opens. Your locally active distributions are listed. Those that are listed in green have a component match.

10. Click OK.

    The Multi Distributions window closes. The Actions list in the Profile Editor now includes more actions for the additional distributions.

11. In the Profile Editor, click OK.

    The Profile Editor closes. PostfixMailServer appears in the Profiles list.

    To deploy the Mail Server Profile, see Chapter 11, Complex Jobs.