How to manually uninstall a controller on a source workload

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  • 05-Jan-2017
  • 06-Jan-2017

Environment

PlateSpin Migrate 9 .x, 11.x. 12.x
PlateSpin Protect 10.x, 11.x
PlateSpin Forge 3.x, 4.x, 11.x

Situation

This article discusses how to manually uninstall the PlateSpin Operations Framework Controller.  This is generally practical when jobs are failing during the "Installing controller on source server" step.
 
Note: This Tool requires .Net Framework 2.0 to be installed on the source server.

Resolution

Clean up the source server before proceeding with the manual controller uninstall:

1.  Open a Command Prompt on the Source Server and navigate to "C:\Program Files\PlateSpin Migrate     Server\Controller\".

2.  Run the following command:

      ofxcontroller /uninstall

3.  Delete following directories on source server:

     C:\Program Files\Platespin <Protect or Migrate> Server
     C:\Windows\PlateSpin