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Administering Connections V5.5Welcome to the IBM Connections V5.5 documentation. IBM Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
InstallingTo install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
Post-installation tasksAfter installation, you need to perform further tasks to ensure an efficient deployment.
Configuring additional IBM Connections applicationsYou must perform additional tasks to enable IBM Connections for the Libraries and Metrics applications.
Setting up IBM® Cognos® Metrics to work with IBM® ConnectionsInstall and configure your IBM® Cognos® Metrics environment to work with IBM® Connections.
Installing and deploying Cognos® MetricsYou must install Cognos® Metrics after installing IBM® Connections and deploy it into a cluster.
Uninstalling Cognos Metrics manuallyIf the Cognos-Metrics installation does not complete properly, you can uninstall the primary BI server, the secondary BI server, and Transformer manually.
Uninstalling Cognos Metrics for WindowsManually uninstall Cognos Metrics for Windows.

Uninstalling Cognos Metrics for Windows

Manually uninstall Cognos Metrics for Windows.

Procedure

Extract the Cognos® installation wizard as follows
1. Extract the wizard to a directory such as C:/build/IBM_Cognos_Install_Windows on the local server.
2. Access the CognosWizard/native folder.
3. Extract CognosCommonConfig_windows.zip.
4. Copy the following files from the bin folder in CognosCommonConfig_windows.zip to the bin folder in %COGNOS_CONFIG_PATH%:
  - cognos-uninstall.bat
  - removeCognosCluster.py
  - removeCognosServer.py
  - uninstallCognosApps.py
  - uninstallCognosDMApps.py
  - validateDM.py
Open the cognos-setup.properties file to restore the value for the PASSWORD REMOVED property to the original password unless the passwords were not removed during installation.
Run the Cognos uninstall command using the following format:
For a clustered, federated node, run
```
>cognos-uninstall.bat -addNode true
```
Note: If you have not entered information for Deployment Manager and the cluster, the console will prompt for them during the validation.
For a stand-alone environment, run
```
>cognos-uninstall.bat
```
Wait for the script to complete running.

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