Remove policy from node


If you have previously deployed policies to nodes, but no longer require the monitoring or configuration that the policy provides, you can remove the policies from the nodes using the console.

To remove policies from nodes

  1. Open Policy management in the console tree and select the policies that you want to remove:
  2. Right-click your selection, and then click All TasksarrowUninstall from .... The Uninstall policies on... dialog box opens. (If this menu item is not available, you selected a version of a policy that is not installed on any nodes.)
  3. Select the nodes that you want to remove the policies from by selecting check boxes for the nodes and node groups in Managed nodes. If you selected only one policy, the following extra options appear, which enable you to automatically select nodes based on policy inventory:

    If you need to modify the automatic selections, click Select nodes from the tree.

  4. Optional. If you know that the job to remove the policy will fail (for example, because the node is unreachable), but you still want to remove the policy from the inventory on the management server, select the force policy removal check box.
  5. Optional. If you want to remove the policies from nodes that have a different version of the policy than your selection, select remove all versions.

    This check box is automatically cleared if you select Select all nodes on which the current version of the policy is deployed and automatically selected if you select Select all nodes on which any version of the policy is deployed.

  6. Optional. If another management server owns a policy on a node, this management server will not uninstall it by default. If you want to this management server to remove the policies that other management servers own, select the ignore policy owner check box. To do this, you must have the user right to ignore policy ownership. The management server that you are connected to must be a primary or secondary manager of the node.
  7. Click OK. The management server creates deployment jobs, which uninstall the policies.
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You can also remove a policy from a node in the policy inventory view:
  1. In the console tree, right-click the node from which you want to remove a policy, and then click Viewarrow Policy Inventory.
  2. In the details pane, right-click the policy that you want to remove, and then click All Tasksarrow Remove from node. The Confirm policy removal dialog appears.
  3. Optional. Select the ignore policy owner check box if you want to remove a policy that is owned by a different management server.
  4. Optional. If you know that the job to remove the policy will fail (for example, because the node is unreachable), but you still want to remove the policy from the inventory on the management server, select the force removal of policy check box.
  5. Click Yes. The management server creates a deployment job, which uninstalls the policy.
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