Deleted Profile shows in profile management tool of IBM Websphere

Question

I deleted the profile in C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles and it still shows up in Profile management tool, how to delete the profile in profile management tool?

Discussion

Answer 1

Deleting a profile's directory is not enough; WebSphere holds additional information about profiles in its own internal directories.

The correct way to delete a profile is to use WebSphere's manageprofiles utility, located in WAS_HOME/bin (in your case: C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin). For example, if your profile's name is MyProfile:

manageprofiles -delete -profileName MyProfile

Danyel

I tried doing that and it failed. INSTCONFAILED: Cannot delete the profile. – Discussion

Also when i do this manageProfiles.bat -validateAndUpdateRegistry, it shows the output as "[]" – Discussion

If manageprofiles -listProfiles shows nothing, and the Profile Management Tool shows that a profile exists, then one of the two: 1) WebSphere bug. Open a PMR with IBM. or 2) you have two WAS installations on this machine. – Danyel

I don't have 2 WAS installations, may be its a websphere bug. – Discussion

You will need to manually delete the profile under the path C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v7\profiles (or similar path depending on your installation) if you got the error INSTCONFPARTIALSUCCESS: The profile no longer exists, but errors occurred. This happens when you don't run manageprofiles as Administrator. – Moiety

Answer 2

Let me give an elaborate answer all issues pertaining to removing profiles

Make sure you have Full access (Read/Write/Delete) to the profiles folder. Open command window as Administrator (Shift+Right click>Run as Administrator). This will help to avoid FileNotFoundException. Run below command in the command window.

manageprofiles -delete -profileName Profilename

(Profilename is case sensitive).

If above one does not work, delete appropriate Profile folder manually and try below command

manageprofiles.bat -validateAndUpdateRegistry

Sometimes Windows service will remain after the removal of the profile, then run below command from bin folder

WASService.exe -remove Nodename

(Nodename will be the last part of Service name)

Ammonal