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Uninstalling the agent

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Uninstalling the agent - AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Uninstalling the AWS Replication Agent from a source server stops the replication of that server. Uninstalling the AWS Replication Agent will remove the source server from the Elastic Disaster Recovery Console.

Uninstalling the Agent through the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery console

To uninstall the AWS Replication Agent though the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery console.

Navigate to the Source servers page.

Check the box to the left of each server that you want to disconnect from Elastic Disaster Recovery (by uninstalling the AWS Replication Agent). Open the Actions menu, and choose the Disconnect from AWS option to disconnect the selected server from AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS.

When the Disconnect X server/s from service dialog appears, click Disconnect.

The AWS Replication Agent will be uninstalled from all of the selected source servers.

Uninstalling the Agent manually through the source server

To uninstall the AWS Replication Agent manually through the source server:

Windows

Copy the following folder to a new location:C:\Program Files (x86)\AWS Replication Agent\dist

From the new location, run in CMD as an administrator:

install_agent_windows.exe --remove

Linux

As root, cd to /var/lib/aws-replication-agent.

Run the following commands from that folder:

./stopAgent.sh

./uninstall_agent_linux.sh

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