You can use the following methods to uninstall the Security Center agent and disable the protection. After you have uninstalled the Security Center agent, there is a waiting period of six hours before the Security Status of the server in the Security Center console changes to unprotected.

Note After you have uninstalled the agent, Security Center initializes self protection. The protection duration is 24 hours. During this period, you can only manually reinstall the agent. When you reinstall the agent, you must ignore all the error messages that the system displays and run the install command more than three times.

Automatically uninstall the Security Center agent

Prerequisites

To uninstall the Security Center agent, you must make sure that the status of the agent on the current server is online. An offline server cannot receive the uninstall instruction.

Procedure

Follow these steps to automatically uninstall the Security Center agent:

  1. Log on to the Security Center console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Settings.
  3. Click Install/Uninstall Security Center Agent.
  4. Click Uninstall Agent in the upper-right corner.
  5. Specify the server where the Security Center agent runs in the Uninstall Agent dialog box, and click Uninstall Now.
  6. Wait for the system to uninstall the Security Center agent on the specified server.

Manually uninstall the Security Center agent

Select a method that is applicable to the operating system of your server to manually uninstall the Security Center agent:

Linux servers

  1. Log on to your server.
  2. Run the following command to download the script for uninstalling the Security Center agent. 
    wget http://update.aegis.aliyun.com/download/uninstall.sh
  3. Sequentially run the following commands to uninstall the Security Center agent.
    • chmod +x uninstall.sh
    • ./uninstall.sh

Windows servers

  1. Log on to your server.
  2. Download the script for uninstalling the Security Center agent to your server.
    Note You can also download the script to your computer and use an FTP client to upload the script to your server.
  3. Double-click the uninstall.bat file to run the script and uninstall the agent.