Uninstalling agent software

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You can uninstall Endpoint Security Agent (HX) software individually on your endpoint hosts or using software management utilities, such as BigFix and SCCM (in Windows environments) or JAMF (in macOS environments). Refer to the documentation provided for the utility.

If you enable a Removal Protection password policy for host sets in your environment, you must enter the removal password to authorize the agent uninstall process. See "Configuring the Agent Removal Protection Password" in the Endpoint Security Agent (HX) Administration Guide for more information on setting up an agent uninstall password.

Important

If you run the uninstall audit on a host set that has the Removal Protection policy enabled, the uninstall audit will fail. To successfully run the uninstall audit, disable the Removal Protection policy before running the uninstall audit.

This section describes how to uninstall the agent software on a single endpoint host and covers the following topics: