How to uninstall SAP installation

Sometimes you need to uninstall cleanly your SAP installation.You can do it manually by deleting related SAP / Database folders and uninstall SAP / Database services. Or you can do it using SAP Installation Master tool.

In this example I’ll show you how to uninstall SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SR1 using SAP Installation Master (I use DB2 on Solaris)

1. Call sapinst from your Installation Master.
Go to Software Life-Cycle Options -> Uninstall -> Unistall System / Standalone Engine …

How to uninstall SAP
SAP Installation Master Menu

2. Choose profile directory

How to uninstall SAP
SAP Profile Directory

3. Choose SAP Instances you want to remove (see SAP Instance installation for detailed)

How to uninstall SAP
SAP Instance removal

4. Select the SAP database.

How to uninstall SAP
SAP Database removal

5. Fill with correct Database SID and Database Host (see SAP Database Instance Installation for detail)

How to uninstall SAP
SAP DB SID and hostname

6. Fill with correct ABAP user and schema

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SAP ABAP schema and connect user

7. Fill with correct Java user and schema if any.

SAP Java schema and connect user

8. Select whether you want to remove whole database

How to uninstall SAP
SAP Database removal

9. Select checkbox to remove OS user

How to uninstall SAP
SAP OS user removal

10. You’ll be shown summary.

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Summary uninstallation

11. Click next to continue SAP installation.

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SAP installation in progress

12. Make sure it’s finished successfully.

How to uninstall SAP
SAP uninstallation

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