There are times when you are required to uninstall Identity Governance. You would uninstall Identity Governance in a lab environment or during an upgrade procedure. The Identity Governance components run against Apache Tomcat and Zulu OpenJDK, to perform an upgrade you must uninstall the Identity Governance components, upgrade Zulu OpenJDK and Apache Tomcat, and then reinstall the Identity Governance components. For more information about upgrading, see Section 12.0, Upgrading Identity Governance.
Identity Governance does come with an uninstall utility that you use to uninstall the product. OSP contains a separate uninstall utility. The uninstall utility for Identity Reporting is the Identity Governance uninstall utility. If you have installed Identity Reporting and Identity Governance together on the same server, the uninstall utility uninstalls Identity Governance and Identity Reporting at the same time. If you have installed Identity Reporting on a separate server without Identity Governance, the uninstall utility only uninstalls Identity Reporting.
IMPORTANT:You must ensure that all of the files are removed from the server before reinstalling the same version of Identity Governance or a new version of Identity Governance for the upgrade procedure.
You can also uninstall the components using the guided method, console method, and silent method in the same way that you install these components. The silent uninstall method does not require a silent properties file. It does not require any interaction to complete the uninstallation. For more information, see Section 1.3, Understanding the Uninstallation Methods.
Use the following information to uninstall the Identity Governance components.