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 to upgrade the Oracle Fail Safe software to the current release.
See Rolling Upgrades and Patches for information about performing a rolling upgrade. See Silent Mode Installations and Deinstallations 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.
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:
Start Oracle Universal Installer and perform the following tasks: