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Administration Guide


Removing a file collection

Warning: Never remove any of the file collections that come with the SP system!

The file collections that come with the SP system are required. If you remove them, the System Support Programs cannot run properly.

Removing a file collection does not delete it. It removes it from the place it was installed. To completely delete a file collection, you must remove it from every place it was installed. Be sure you do not need any files in a file collection before you remove it.

You can use the supper scan command to build a scan file for the file collection you are going to remove. The scan file shows you a list of all the files in a collection. You can check it to verify that you do not need any of these files before you remove the collection. See Verifying file collections using the scan file for more information about the scan file.

Example

To build a scan file for verification, enter this command on the boot-install server where the tools collection is installed:

   /var/sysman/supper scan tools

If you are sure you do not need any of the files, continue with the next command.

To remove the tools boot-install collection, on the same boot-install server enter:

   /var/sysman/supper remove tools

This removes all the files in the collection only from that machine. If you also issue this command on the control workstation or the master server for the collection, you will no longer be able to propagate these files in your system.


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