Commands

In certain scenarios the Platform9 Host Agent will need to be uninstalled and all CLI packages removed for a node to be successfully reused. This includes:

Cloning a VM that has Host Agent installed
Deauthorizing a node and re-running prep-node
Host Agent installation was interrupted causing the installation to fail
Node authorization fails due to network connectivity

To remove the Host Agent follow the steps below.

Step 1

To completely reuse a node the node must be first detached from a cluster by using the Scale Workers or Scale Master command on the Infrastructure ‘Clusters’ dashboard or using the CLI. Once the node has been removed from the cluster it needs to be deauthorized form the Platform9 SaaS Management Plane. This can be done on the Infrastructure ‘Nodes’ dashboard by selecting the node and clicking the ‘Deauthorize Node’ table action. Once this command has been completed the node is detached and no longer under management.

The alternate approach is to delete the cluster and deauthorize all nodes.

Step 2

Ensure the Host Agent process is not running by running the command:

ps -ef |grep hostAgent

If the Host Agent is running stop the Host Agent process on the Node by running:

sudo systemctl stop pf9-hostagent

Stopping HostAgent should stop all other services. Run the commands below to ensure all services are stopped.

sudo systemctl stop pf9-nodeletd sudo systemctl stop pf9-kubelet

Step 3

Remove the Host Agent by running

sudo apt-get purge pf9-hostagent

sudo yum erase -y pf9-hostagent

Example Host Agent Removal

sudo apt-get purge pf9-hostagent [sudo] password for pf9admin: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: cgroup-tools ipvsadm keepalived libcgroup1 libnl-route-3-200 socat Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: pf9-comms* pf9-hostagent* pf9-muster* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded. After this operation, 211 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 154452 files and directories currently installed.) Removing pf9-comms (4.5.0-770.6874f04) ... Removing pf9-muster (4.5.0-343) ... Removing pf9-hostagent (4.5.0-409.5192397) ... Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.42) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ... (Reading database ... 141699 files and directories currently installed.) Purging configuration files for pf9-comms (4.5.0-770.6874f04) ... Purging configuration files for pf9-hostagent (4.5.0-409.5192397) ... dpkg: warning: while removing pf9-hostagent, directory '/var/opt/pf9' not empty so not removed dpkg: warning: while removing pf9-hostagent, directory '/var/log/pf9' not empty so not removed dpkg: warning: while removing pf9-hostagent, directory '/opt/pf9/python/lib/python3.6/__pycache__' not empty so not removed dpkg: warning: while removing pf9-hostagent, directory '/etc/pf9/certs' not empty so not removed

Clean up logs

Remove the existing logs

sudo rm -fr /var/log/pf9

Last updated by Anagha Pamidi on Jan 27, 2026

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