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Deleting profilers

In VM-based environments, deleting the profiler cluster (or in Compute Cluster enabled environments deleting the profiler jobs) removes all the Custom Sensitivity Profiler rules and other updates to the specific cluster. It could also cause loss of data specific to currently applied rules on the deleted profiler cluster.

To overcome this situation, when you decide to delete the profiler cluster or (in VM-based environments) the profiler jobs by Compute Cluster enabled environments, there is a provision to retain the status of the Custom Sensitivity Profiler rules:
  • If your profiler cluster or profiler jobs have rules that are not changed or updated, you can directly delete them or the profiler cluster.
  • If the rules were modified or updated, you have an option to download the modified rules along with deletion. The modified rules consist of the suspended system rules and the deployed custom rules. Using the downloaded rules, you can manually add or modify them to your newly added profiler jobs or the profiler cluster.
  1. On the Search page, select the data lake from the drop-down.
  2. Click Delete Profiler.
  3. If you agree, select the warning message I understand this action cannot be undone.
    Figure 1. Deleting a profiler in a VM-based environment
    Figure 2. Deleting a profiler in a Compute Cluster enabled environment
  4. Click Delete.
    The application displays the following message.
    Additionally, note that you can delete the profiler cluster in these situations, when:
    • Profiler cluster is up and running
    • Profiler cluster is created but stopped
    • Profiler cluster creation failed but is registered with the data lake
    • Profiler cluster is down and inaccessible

    The profiler cluster is deleted successfully.