How to remove a LDAP connection from Usage Meter

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
When you have added a LDAP connection to Usage Meter you may prefer to remove it in the future.

Environment

VMware vCloud Usage Meter 3.x

Resolution

The steps are as follows:

1. Take a snapshot of the appliance.
2. Login to the command line interface of Usage Meter as root.
3. Type sql to log into the Postgres DB.
4. First run this command: SELECT * FROM "LdapServer";
5. Then: DELETE FROM "LdapServer" WHERE id = <id returned from the above query>;
6. Exit Postgres with: \q
7. Type: service tomcat restart
8. Login with the user admin into the web UI with the password set by the CLI command webpass.
9. After everything is confirmed to be working you may consolidate the snapshot.