Product guide

Removing the McAfee Agent
Use these tasks to remove agents from systems.
After deleting an agent, it is deleted from the System Tree and the agent removed during the
next agent-server communication. Keep in mind that if point products still reside on systems
after attempting to remove the agent, the agent will continue to run unmanaged in updater
mode in order to maintain those point products.
NOTE: You cannot remove the agent using the Product Deployment task, which can remove
products such as VirusScan Enterprise.
Tasks
Running FrmInst.exe from the command line
Removing agents when deleting systems from the System Tree
Removing agents when deleting groups from the System Tree
Removing agents from systems in query results
Uninstalling from non-Windows operating systems
Running FrmInst.exe from the command line
Use this task to remove the agent from a system by running the agent installation program,
FrmInst.exe, from the command line.
NOTE: If there are point-products installed on a system from which the agent has been removed,
the now unmanaged agent continues in updater mode.
Task
• Run the agent installation program, FrmInst.exe, from the command line with the
/REMOVE=AGENT option. The default location of this file is:
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MCAFEE\COMMON FRAMEWORK
Removing agents when deleting systems from the
System Tree
Use this task to remove agents from systems when you delete those systems from the System
Tree.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
49McAfee Agent software version 4.5 Product Guide