After you uninstall Sentinel, certain systems settings remain.These settings should be removed before performing a “clean” installation of Sentinel, particularly if the Sentinel uninstallation encountered errors.
To manually clean up the Sentinel system settings:
Log in as root.
Ensure that all Sentinel processes are stopped.
Remove the contents of /opt/novell/sentinel or wherever the Sentinel software was installed.
Make sure no one is logged in as the Sentinel Administrator operating system user (novell by default), then remove the user, the home directory, and the group.
userdel -r novell
groupdel novell
Restart the operating system.
After you run the uninstall script for uninstalling the Correlation Engine, the Correlation Engine icon is still displayed in inactive state in the Web interface. You need to perform the following additional steps to manually delete the Correlation Engine in the Web interface:
Log in to the Sentinel Web interface as an administrator.
Expand , then select the Correlation Engine that you want to delete.
Click the button (garbage can icon).
After you run the uninstall script for uninstalling the Collector Manager, the Collector Manager icon is still displayed in inactive state in the Web interface. You need to perform the following additional steps to manually delete the Collector Manager in the Web interface:
Access .
Right-click the Collector Manager you want to delete, then click .