How to delete Old CA Strong Authentication and CA Risk Authentication Instances from the Master Admin Console view?

Products

• CA Advanced Authentication
• CA Strong Authentication
• CA Advanced Authentication - Strong Authentication (AuthMinder / WebFort)

Issue/Introduction

How to delete CA Strong Authentication Instances from the Master Admin Console view?

Environment

Environment: 9.x
Component: CA Strong Authentication server and CA Risk Authentication Server

Resolution

1. Use the following commands:

    - For CA Strong Authentication Instance to remove the required instance.
      delete from ARWFINSTANCES where hostname=’<hostname>  and INSTANCENAME= ‘<instancename>’;’;

    - For CA Risk Authentication Instance to remove the required instance.
      delete from ARRFINSTANCES where hostname=’<hostname> and SERVERTYPE='RiskFort';

2. Restart the CA Strong Authentication server, CA Risk Authentication server and CA Admin UI installed under the Application Server.

3. Verify that the "Instance Management" of Admin UI for CA Strong Authentication and CA Risk Authentication does not show the instances that were removed.

** Also refer to the related KB #10694 for a best practice that is mentioned in the document pointed to below as "How to remove the Risk Auth instance completely"  "**** 

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