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BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
Remote Control Installation Guide
By using Remote Control you can remotely support and control thousands of PCs and servers, on an enterprise scale, from a central location or directly, in peer to peer mode.
Uninstall the components
Uninstall the server
Uninstalling the server application in IBM® Websphere Application Server

Remote Control
BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
- Release notes
  A summary of changed or new features and enhancements included in BigFix Remote Control.
- Remote Control Installation Guide
  By using Remote Control you can remotely support and control thousands of PCs and servers, on an enterprise scale, from a central location or directly, in peer to peer mode.
  - Audience
  - Versions
  - Terms used in this guide
  - Overview of the Remote Controlsystem
  - Get started
    Now that you understand the terms and components available in Remote Control, you can identify which components you need to install:
  - Install the Remote Control components
    The Remote Control components can be installed in two ways. If you have access to the BigFix® console, use a deployment fixlet to install the components.
  - Utility for extracting the component installation files
    Remote Control provides a utility that you can use to extract the installation files that are required for each component.
  - Enable secure target registration
    To prevent unauthorized targets from registering with the Remote Control server, you can enable the secure registration feature and use tokens to authenticate the target.
  - Install the driver for smart card authentication
    The BigFix® Remote Control Target provides an installation option to install a virtual smart card reader driver. You can also install the driver by running a fixlet in the BigFix console.
  - Manage the component services
    After you install the Remote Control components, if you change their configuration, you can stop, start, or restart the component services.
  - Enabling email
  - Configure LDAP
  - Configure TLSv1.3
  - Federal information processing standard (FIPS 140-2) compliance in Remote Control
    The US Federal information processing standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) is a cryptographic function validation program that defines security standards for cryptographic modules that are used in IT software.
  - NIST SP800-131A compliance in Remote Control
    Remote Control version 10.0.0 components can be configured for NIST SP800-131A compliance.
  - Verifying the server installation
  - Recover from installation errors
  - Uninstall the components
    - Uninstall the server
    - Uninstalling the target on Windows™ systems
      Using Add or Remove Programs to remove the target software from a Windows™ system.
    - Uninstalling the target on Linux® systems
  - Upgrade from previous versions
  - Maintaining the target installation
  - Properties that can be set in the target configuration
    You can configure target properties either during or after installation. The operating system on the target system determines which properties can be configured. The target properties determine the actions that can be carried out during a peer-to-peer session. If you set a server URL and set the Managed property to Yes, the actions are determined by the policies that are set on the Remote Control server.
- Remote Control Administrators Guide
  This guide is for users who want to administer Remote Control.
- Remote Control Console User Guide
- BigFix Remote Control Controller Users Guide
- Remote Control Target Users Guide
- Remote Control On-demand Target Guide
  Use Remote Control to start remote control sessions over the internet with targets that do not have the target software installed.
- Remote Control V10 Readme

Uninstalling the server application in IBM® Websphere Application Server

About this task

If you have performed a manual installation of the BigFix® Remote Control Server software, you can uninstall the software using the IBM® Websphere Application Server administration console by completing the following steps:

To access the Administrative Console complete the following steps:

Procedure

In your browser type
```
https://[server : port]/ibm/console
 
```
where server is the ipaddress or name for the application server machine for example localhost or 192.0.2.0 and port is the port that the server is listening on.
Logon with the ID and password that were defined when installing Websphere.
Expand Applications and click Enterprise applications.
Select the check box for the Remote Control server application.
Click Uninstall.
Select Save to save to the Master Configuration.