Client Management Suite

I am looking for something like this HOWTO for Altiris 7.1:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO59038

But I need it for version 7.5

Thanks

Thanks, I'll probably put that in a bash script tomorrow and I'll post it back here. 

Its actually quite similar.

1) You will want to stop the aex-pluginmanager process

2) delete /opt/altiris

3) delete /usr/bin/aex* (there are quite a few and they are simply links to the real binaries in /opt/altiris

4) Remove the Symantec App from /Applications/Utilities

5) I no longer have anything in Startup Items but there is an item in /Library/LaunchDaemons (com.symantec.SMAgent.plist)

     Might need to unload this first:

    sudo launchctl unload com.symantec.SMAgent.plist

6)  Remove the receipts from /var/db/receipts

7) Check that no other receipts exist

    pkgutil --pkgs | grep altiris 

   pkgutil --pkgs | grep Symantec

7a) If more do exit you can remove them by doing the following:

    sudo pkgutil --forget [packageID] 

     where [packageID} is the name of the package as it appears from above; something like com.Symantec.DeploymentSolutionAgent

Of course you could do some greps and pipes to make the cleanup even faster. It would also be pretty easy to write a script or even a package to remove the agents.

I wrote a quick and dirty one. You can find it attached. Change the extension if you want but in the least make it executable. There is no error checking which is why I explicity exit with 0. 

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rmSymAgent.txt   1 KB 1 version

If you want to reinstall the agent, other options include using the uninstall policy and the aex-uninstall command.

List of commands for the Mac agent: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH29115.

Those commands by default are located in the /opt/altiris/notification/nsagent/bin directory.

If other plug-ins besides the default are installed like the Deployment Solution Plug-in, there will be folders left over if using the aex-uninstall command.  In that case, to completely remove the agent the script would be the best option.