Client Automation - Difference between lsm -e and dsmuninst_bg -bg ca-dsm

Products

• CA Client Automation - IT Client Manager
• CA Client Automation

Issue/Introduction

What is the difference between

lsm -e
and
dsmuninst_bg -bg ca-dsm
?

Environment

Client Automation - All versions

Resolution

The commands

lsm -e ca-dsm -s

and
dsmuninst_bg -bg ca-dsm

 

could be used to uninstall ITCM agent silently.


Script dsmuninst_bg executes command "lsm -e ca-dsm -s"

This script does also some verification before and after uninstallation.


In uninstallation procedure of SD packages for Linux agent, following script is executed :

$CA_ITRM_BASEDIR/scripts/dsmuninst_bg -bg ca-dsm

Example :

 

 

So these 2 commands could be used to uninstall ITCM agent as they do mainly the same thing.