I deleted the profile in C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles and it still shows up in Profile management tool, how to delete the profile in profile management tool?
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Deleting a profile's directory is not enough; WebSphere holds additional information about profiles in its own internal directories.
The correct way to delete a profile is to use WebSphere's manageprofiles utility, located in WAS_HOME/bin (in your case: C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin). For example, if your profile's name is MyProfile:
manageprofiles -delete -profileName MyProfile
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I tried doing that and it failed. INSTCONFAILED: Cannot delete the profile. – user3587174 Jun 19 '14 at 02:15
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Also when i do this manageProfiles.bat -validateAndUpdateRegistry, it shows the output as "[]" – user3587174 Jun 19 '14 at 02:19
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If `manageprofiles -listProfiles` shows nothing, and the Profile Management Tool shows that a profile exists, then one of the two: 1) WebSphere bug. Open a PMR with IBM. or 2) you have two WAS installations on this machine. – Isaac Jun 20 '14 at 00:02
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I don't have 2 WAS installations, may be its a websphere bug. – user3587174 Jun 20 '14 at 01:51
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You will need to manually delete the profile under the path `C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v7\profiles` (or similar path depending on your installation) if you got the error `INSTCONFPARTIALSUCCESS: The profile no longer exists, but errors occurred.` This happens when you don't run `manageprofiles` as Administrator. – Jesse Jun 02 '15 at 19:31
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Let me give an elaborate answer all issues pertaining to removing profiles
Make sure you have Full access (Read/Write/Delete) to the profiles folder. Open command window as Administrator (Shift+Right click>Run as Administrator). This will help to avoid FileNotFoundException. Run below command in the command window.
manageprofiles -delete -profileName Profilename
(Profilename is case sensitive).
If above one does not work, delete appropriate Profile folder manually and try below command
manageprofiles.bat -validateAndUpdateRegistry
Sometimes Windows service will remain after the removal of the profile, then run below command from bin folder
WASService.exe -remove Nodename
(Nodename will be the last part of Service name)
