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AutoSys: The specified instance is already defined
Article ID: 195415
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Products
CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
Workload Automation Agent
CA Workload Automation AE
Issue/Introduction
In a multi-instance environment, after removing the previous release of Client installation,
when running the setup to reinstall the new release of the Client, it fails with error:
The specified instance is already defined in the CA Workload Automation AE configuration.
Specify another instance.
Environment
Release : 11.3.6
Component : CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys)
Resolution
The encountered problem was related to the instance file remaining under /etc folder.
# cd /etc
# ls auto*
auto.PRD < =====
auto.profile
After removing the auto.$AUTOSERV file under /etc directory, installation completed successfully.
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