How to Delete Websphere Application Server Profile

Here we are going to discuss how to delete the profile in Websphere Application server environment. I used the following to remove application server profile.

Note: Before deleting profile we need to stop all services associate with it.

e.g. Stop the Application server and webServer if configured.

Procedure:

1. First list all profiles on a server:
   List the profile using one of these commands
   Windows: was_install_dir\bin\manageprofiles.bat –listProfiles
   UNIX/Linux: was_install_dir/bin/manageprofiles.sh –listProfiles
2. Remove a WebSphere Application Server profile:
   Delete the profile using one of these commands:
   On Windows: was_install_dir\bin\manageprofiles.bat –delete –profileName profile
   On UNIX/Linux: was_install_dir/bin/manageprofiles.sh –delete –profileName profile
3. Ensure that references to the deleted profile are removed from the profile registry by running the following command:
   On Windows: was_install_dir\bin\manageprofiles.bat –validateAndUpdateRegistry
   On UNIX/Linux: was_install_dir/bin/manageprofiles.sh –validateAndUpdateRegistry
4. Delete the profile directory tree (if it was not deleted by the previous action).
   Delete the profile Directory using one of these commands:
   On Windows: was_install_dir\profiles\rmdir /s profileDirectory
   On UNIX/Linux: was_install_dir\profiles\rm -R profileDirectory

Hope this will help you to delete the profile in your environment and for more option of manageprofile run the command manageprofiles.bat –help