Uninstall NGINX Agent

Overview

Follow the steps in this guide to remove F5 NGINX Agent from your NGINX instances.

Before you begin

The user following performing the uninstall steps needs to have root privilege.

Uninstall NGINX Agent

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX Agent

Uninstall NGINX Agent on RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and Oracle Linux

Uninstall NGINX Agent on RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and Oracle Linux

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX Agent:

  1. Stop NGINX Agent:

    sudo systemctl stop nginx-agent

  2. To uninstall NGINX Agent, run the following command:

    sudo yum remove nginx-agent
Uninstall NGINX Agent on Ubuntu

Uninstall NGINX Agent on Ubuntu

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX Agent:

  1. Stop NGINX Agent:

    sudo systemctl stop nginx-agent

  2. To uninstall NGINX Agent, run the following command:

    sudo apt-get remove nginx-agent
    Note: The apt-get remove <package> command will remove the package from your system, while keeping the associated configuration files for possible future use. If you want to completely remove the package and all of its configuration files, you should use apt-get purge <package>.
Uninstall NGINX Agent on Debian

Uninstall NGINX Agent on Debian

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX Agent:

  1. Stop NGINX Agent:

    sudo systemctl stop nginx-agent

  2. To uninstall NGINX Agent, run the following command:

    sudo apt-get remove nginx-agent
    Note: The apt-get remove <package> command will remove the package from your system, while keeping the associated configuration files for possible future use. If you want to completely remove the package and all of its configuration files, you should use apt-get purge <package>.
Uninstall NGINX Agent on SLES

Uninstall NGINX Agent on SLES

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX Agent:

  1. Stop NGINX agent:

    sudo systemctl stop nginx-agent

  2. To uninstall NGINX agent, run the following command:

    sudo zypper remove nginx-agent
Uninstall NGINX Agent on Alpine Linux

Uninstall NGINX Agent on Alpine Linux

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX agent:

  1. Stop NGINX agent:

    sudo rc-service nginx-agent stop

  2. To uninstall NGINX agent, run the following command:

    sudo apk del nginx-agent
Uninstall NGINX Agent on Amazon Linux

Uninstall NGINX Agent on Amazon Linux

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX agent:

  1. Stop NGINX agent:

    sudo systemctl stop nginx-agent

  2. To uninstall NGINX agent, run the following command:

    sudo yum remove nginx-agent
Uninstall NGINX Agent on FreeBSD

Uninstall NGINX Agent on FreeBSD

Complete the following steps on each host where you’ve installed NGINX agent:

  1. Stop NGINX agent:

    sudo service nginx-agent stop

  2. To uninstall NGINX agent, run the following command:

    sudo pkg delete nginx-agent