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:How to manually uninstall the security center Agent from an ECS instance

Last Updated:Dec 29, 2020

Overview

This article describes how to manually uninstall the security center Agent from an ECS instance.

Detail

Alibaba Cloud reminds you that:

  • Before you perform operations that may cause risks, such as modifying instance configurations or data, we recommend that you check the disaster recovery and fault tolerance capabilities of the instances to ensure data security.
  • You can modify the configurations and data of instances including but not limited to Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Relational Database Service (RDS) instances. Before the modification, we recommend that you create snapshots or enable RDS log backup.
  • If you have authorized or submitted sensitive information such as the logon account and password in the Alibaba Cloud Management Console, we recommend that you modify such information in a timely manner.

Select the following steps based on the on-site environment.

Windows-based ECS instances

Download the package, and then uninstall the security center Agent as prompted.

Linux ECS instances.

Log on to the target server and run the following command to uninstall the Agent:

/etc/init.d/aegis uninstall

Application scope

  • Elastic Compute Service
  • Security Center