Policy Server reinstallation after the install directory is deleted?

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

While trying to uninstall 12.8 Policy Server on Linux, instead of cleaning uninstallation, the CA folder was deleted by mistake.

Now while trying to reinstall the server on the same box, it is giving errors and it is not getting installed properly.

Environment

Environment: 12.8.xx and 12.9 (Applicable to all the supported releases)
Component: SMPLC : SITEMINDER -POLICY SERVER

Resolution

On Linux, the installation creates several files which can be in a global location - usually under /var and or the directory where SiteMinder is installed - and/or the home directory of the user who installed SiteMinder.

------ These files are:

.com.zerog.registry.xml
.Admin_UI_Prerequisite_Registry.registry
.CA_IAM_FW.registry

Do a system-wide file search for these files.

The following commands should do this:

# find / -name ".com.zerog.registry.xml"
# find / -name ".Admin_UI_Prerequisite_Registry.registry"
# find / -name ".CA_IAM_FW.registry"

These files should be deleted, or renamed, so SiteMinder can then be installed again.