This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for deinstalling Oracle Fail Safe software.
You might want to deinstall Oracle Fail Safe, for example, to remove older software or to move Oracle Fail Safe software to another Oracle home. However, do not use the deinstallation instructions in this chapter as a method for upgrading the Oracle Fail Safe software to the current release. See Appendix A for information about performing a rolling upgrade. See Appendix B for information about performing a silent mode deinstallation.
Note:
Deinstalling Oracle Fail Safe will restart the "Cluster Service" service which will cause all cluster groups currently running on that node to failover to another node in the cluster.Caution:
Do not evict a node from a cluster without first deinstalling Oracle Fail Safe. Evicting a node that has Oracle Fail Safe installed will cause the cluster metadata for Oracle resources to become inconsistent and deinstallation of Oracle Fail Safe from the evicted node impossible. If a node is evicted before deinstalling Oracle Fail Safe from the node then add that node back into the cluster, deinstall Oracle Fail Safe, and then evict the node.Deinstalling Oracle Fail Safe software involves removing resources from groups and reconfiguring them to run on a specific cluster node.
Perform the following steps to remove Oracle Fail Safe software:
If you run the Windows Event Viewer and display any Oracle Fail Safe events, then you should close the Event Viewer before deinstalling Oracle Fail Safe.
Using Oracle Fail Safe Manager, perform the following tasks:
Move each group to the node that will host the standalone Oracle resources after Oracle Fail Safe is deinstalled.
Remove all Oracle resources from your groups.
Exit Oracle Fail Safe Manager.
Start Oracle Universal Installer and perform the following tasks:
Click Deinstall Products to display Inventory dialog box.
Select the Oracle home that contains the Oracle Fail Safe software.
Expand the tree view and select the check box next to Oracle Fail Safe.
Click Remove.
There is a Confirmation dialog box prompting the user whether he wants to continue with the deinstallation of the product. The dialog box states the following message:
"Are you sure you want to deinstall the following products and their dependent components?"
If the user clicks Yes, then it progresses to the Remove dialog box showing the progress of the deinstallation process. Click No to stop the deinstallation process.
Click Exit to exit Oracle Universal Installer.