Manually Remove Telegraf Agents from Endpoints

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

These instructions will assist with the manual removal of the Telegraf Agent from endpoints without access to the Aria Operations Environment. 

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)