Uninstall the Cortex® XDR™ Agent for Linux

Uninstall using package manager.
Depending on your Linux distribution, uninstall the Cortex XDR agent using one of the following commands:
For RHEL, CentOS, or Oracle distributions, use the
yum remove cortex-agent
or
rpm —e cortex—agent
command.
For Ubuntu or Debian distributions, use the
apt—get remove cortex—agent
command.
For SuSE distributions, use the
zypper rm cortex—agent
or
rpm —e cortex—agent
command.
Uninstall using a shell script.
If you used the shell script to install the Cortex XDR agent, you can use the corresponding uninstall shell script to uninstall the agent. You cannot use the script to uninstall agents installed using other methods.
On the Linux server, run the uninstall.sh script and confirm you want to uninstall the Cortex XDR agent.
The
uninstall.sh
script is located in the
/opt/traps/scripts
directory. By default, the script removes all logs, keys, and other files related to the Cortex XDR agent. If you want to preserve the logs, run the uninstall script in light mode using the
—l
option.
To use the uninstall script, you must run it from the default location in the scripts directory, and as root or with root permissions.
								root@ubuntu:/$
								
/opt/traps/scripts/uninstall.sh
								This operation will uninstall Cortex XDR agent, are you sure? [y/N]:
								
y
								[1] Shutting down Cortex XDR services
								Done
								[2] Waiting on active AppArmor policy updates
								Done
								[3] Removing AppArmor policies
								* cortex xdr
								Done
								[4] Stopping Cortex XDR security services (systemd)
								Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/traps_trapsd.service.
								Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/traps_pmd.service.
								Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/traps_authorized.service.
								Done
								[5] Removing Cortex XDR agent
								Done
							
Confirm that the agent is no longer installed.
From the Linux server you can verify the removal of the traps folder in /opt/. From Cortex XDR, you can also verify that the server was removed from the
Endpoints
page.