Uninstalling Discovery Agent

This page covers how to uninstall the Discovery Agent on Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Uninstall Discovery Agent on Linux

This section describes how to uninstall Discovery Agent on Linux.

To uninstall an agent if you're using the yum package manager

• Use the following command to uninstall an agent if using yum.

  rpm -e --nodeps aws-discovery-agent

To uninstall an agent if you're using the apt-get package manager

• Use the following command to uninstall an agent if using apt-get.

  apt-get remove aws-discovery-agent:i386

To uninstall an agent if you're using the zypper package manager

• Use the following command to uninstall an agent if using zypper.

  zypper remove aws-discovery-agent

Uninstall Discovery Agent on Microsoft Windows

This section describes how to uninstall Discovery Agent on Microsoft Windows.

To uninstall a discovery agent on Windows

1. Open the Control Panel in Windows.

2. Choose Programs.

3. Choose Programs and Features.

4. Select AWS Discovery Agent.

5. Choose Uninstall.

   Note

   If you choose to reinstall the agent after uninstalling it, run the following command with the /repair and /norestart options.

   .\AWSDiscoveryAgentInstaller.exe REGION="your-home-region" KEY_ID="aws-access-key-id" KEY_SECRET="aws-secret-access-key" /quiet /repair /norestart

To uninstall a discovery agent on Windows using the command line

1. Right-click Start.

2. Choose Command Prompt.

3. Use the following command to uninstall a discovery agent on Windows.

   wmic product where name='AWS Discovery Agent' call uninstall

Note

If the .exe file is present on the server, you can uninstall the agent completely from the server by using the following command. If you use this command to uninstall, you don't need to use the /repair and /norestart options when you reinstall the agent.

 .\AWSDiscoveryAgentInstaller.exe /quiet /uninstall