14.6 Removing Oracle GoldenGate Windows Components

(Valid for Windows installations) This procedure does the following:

  • Removes Oracle GoldenGate as a Windows cluster resource from a source or target Windows system.

  • Stops Oracle GoldenGate events from being reported to the Windows Event Manager.

  • Removes the Manager service.

Perform these steps on source and target systems.

  1. Log on as the system administrator or as a user with permission to issue Oracle GoldenGate commands and to delete files and directories from the operating system.
  2. Run GGSCI and make certain that all Extract and Replicat processes are stopped. Stop any that are running. 
    STATUS ER *
STOP ER *
  3. (Cluster) Use the Cluster Administrator tool to take the Manager resource offline.
  4. (Cluster) Right click the resource and select Delete to remove it.
  5. Click Start then Run, and then type cmd in the Run dialog box to open the command console.
  6. Change directories to the Oracle GoldenGate installation directory.
  7. Run the INSTALL utility with the following syntax. 
    install deleteevents deleteservice
  8. (Cluster) Move the cluster group to the next node in the cluster, and repeat from step 5.

Parent topic: Uninstalling Oracle GoldenGate for Heterogeneous Databases