Determine order for removing products (RHEL/CentOS only)

When uninstalling
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products from the same server, the product that was installed first must be uninstalled last. During the installation of the first product, the
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Service Database is created and the other products subsequently access it. Uninstalling the product installed first will also uninstall the Service Database that will disable the sm_service command for those products, prevent their proper operation and uninstallation.
You can determine what product software was installed first by performing this check:
  1. Use a text editor to open the
    ic-serviced
    script.
    • For CentOS,
      ic-serviced
      is located in the /etc/init.d directory
      • For Linux,
        ic-serviced
        is located in the /etc/init.d directory
  2. Find the value of the SMHOME variable.
    The value of SMHOME indicates which product was installed first.