How to verify that DWS and Tomcat are uninstalled after removing DWS from EO/EE
Question:
After uninstalling DWS how do you ensure that the DWS service and Apache Tomcat are gone?
Background:
DWS is only required for hosting certain Embedded platforms. If DWS option was selected by mistake, use the following to resolve.
Answer:
To remove DWS from the software, you use the 'Change' option for EE/EO in control panel>applications>add/remove programs and unselect DWS. DWS should completely uninstall. If you want to see that it uninstalled you can check the following:
- Check that you can access this url before the uninstall: https://myhost:8443/DwsMain/WebAdmin/app , where 'myhost' refers to the server where DWS is located.
- Verify you can't access it after the install.
- Verify that DWS service is not listed in services and is not listening on port 8080 in netstat (netstat -abn).
- The DWS folder in 'Program Files' (including the apache-tomcat folder) and the