topic Re: Uninstall hot fix in Administration and Deployment

Uninstall hot fix

Babloo — Wed, 29 May 2019 12:21:18 GMT

Could you please help me understand to uninstall the hotfix?

Also how should I find which hotfix should I apply for my environment? Assume I'm in SAS EG 7.2 then how can I find the hotfix for my environment?

Re: Uninstall hot fix

alexal — Wed, 29 May 2019 12:31:11 GMT

@Babloo ,

how can I find the hotfix for my environment?

The SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool (SASHFADD) analyzes a SAS® 9.2, SAS® 9.3, or SAS® 9.4 deployment. The tool creates a customized report that lists available hot fixes for the installed SAS products, and also generates scripts that automate hot-fix downloads. A script is generated to install SAS 9.2 hot fixes.You use SAS® Deployment Manager to install SAS 9.3 and SAS 9.4 hot fixes.

Could you please help me understand to uninstall the hotfix?

No automated process exists to remove a SAS® 9.x hot fix. You must manually remove a hot fix. The removal process varies in complexity depending on the installed hot fix.

If you think that a SAS 9.x hot fix must be removed, restore your system using the last backup that was made before you installed the hot fix. If a backup is not available, open a track with SAS Technical Support so that a consultant can evaluate whether the hot fix can be removed safely from your system.

SAS Hot Fix FAQs

Re: Uninstall hot fix

SimonDawson — Wed, 29 May 2019 22:46:35 GMT

Typically the simplest approach to revert a hotfix is to restore the system from a backup to a state before the hot fix was applied ~~taken~~ . With virtual machines I typically take a volume snapshot before I start to apply the hot fix. With systems that have a filesystem that can provide a snapshot (like ZFS) I'll use a filesystem snapshot.

If anything goes wrong its simple to get the machine(s) back to the state they were in before things went sideways.

Re: Uninstall hot fix

shivas — Thu, 30 May 2019 07:31:22 GMT

Hi,

If you have applied hot fix on SAS EG client then how about reinstall the SAS EG again?

Thanks,

Shiva