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Couldn't uninstall Splunk Enterprise from Windows 2012 server.

Dinesh_Raja — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:38:59 GMT

Hi All,

I have installed Splunk Universal forwarder & Splunk Enterprise (6.6.6) on a windows server machine. However, i don't need Splunk enterprise now on this machine. I uninstalled Splunk Enterprise application from control panel, however, i could see the 'Splunk' folder under program files directory. When i try to delete respective folder (460MB), i m getting error message of "This action can't be completed because the file is open in splunkd" and "This action can't be completed because the file is open in 52775fd4.rbf".

Looking forward for your support.

Regards,
Dinesh Raja

Re: Couldn't uninstall Splunk Enterprise from Windows 2012 server.

p_gurav — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:47:19 GMT

Did you stop splunk and then delete it?

Re: Couldn't uninstall Splunk Enterprise from Windows 2012 server.

Dinesh_Raja — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:02:00 GMT

Thanks , Forgot to stop the service. It worked.

Re: Couldn't uninstall Splunk Enterprise from Windows 2012 server.

Dinesh_Raja — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:04:43 GMT

Forgot to stop Splunkd service. Uninstalled successfully after stop the service. Thanks @p_gurav .

Re: Couldn't uninstall Splunk Enterprise from Windows 2012 server.

p_gurav — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:22:42 GMT

Happy to help!!!