UIM - Automate the process of robot removal from Windows

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

How to automate the process of robot removal from the windows system. 

Environment

Release : DX UIM 20.4/23.4* (Any supported UIM release)

Component: Robot

OS: Windows

Cause

This article is informational. 

Resolution

These commands can be used as a script to automate the process: 

sc stop NimbusWatcherService 
sc delete NimbusWatcherService 
"C:\Windows\System32\REG" DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{4337A496-6773-4624-985F-E203E1D08CC9} /f
rmdir /s /q <ROBOT> i.e. rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\Nimsoft"

 

Additional Information

This process will not completely decommission the robot from UIM but it will only remove the robot software from the Windows system. For completely removing the system from UIM see: Remove / Decommission Robots or HUBs from UIM (broadcom.com)