Manually Remove Telegraf Agents from Endpoints

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

These instructions will assist with the manual removal or uninstall of the Telegraf Agent from endpoints without access to the Aria Operations Environment or where the existing cloud proxy has been retired, reinstalled, removed, or deleted.

 

Environment

Aria Operations 8.x

Resolution

For Linux:

• Open an SSH session and login as root
• To stop services, run the following commands:
  • systemctl stop ucp-minion
  • systemctl stop ucp-salt-minion
  • systemctl stop ucp-telegraf
• To unregister the services: 
  • systemctl disable ucp-minion
  • systemctl disable ucp-salt-minion
  • systemctl disable ucp-telegraf
• To remove the services:  
  • rm /etc/systemd/system/ucp-minion.service
  • rm /etc/systemd/system/ucp-salt-minion.service
  • rm /etc/systemd/system/ucp-telegraf.service
• Restart systemd: 
  • systemctl daemon-reload
• Once the services are stopped and removed, delete binaries
  • rm -r /opt/vmware/ucp

For Windows:

• Open an elevated PowerShell prompt with Administrator rights
• To stop services, run the following commands:
  • SC STOP ucp-minion
  • SC STOP ucp-salt-minion
  • SC STOP ucp-telegraf
• To Remove the services: 
  • SC DELETE ucp-minion
  • SC DELETE ucp-salt-minion
  • SC DELETE ucp-telegraf
• Once the services are stopped and removed, delete binaries from folder C:\VMware\UCP (Force delete the folder itself)