Unable to delete non-functioning Connector Managers

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. In the GSA admin console, go to the Connector Managers page.
2. Click delete on a connector manager that that isn't working and has
connector instances defined.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I get the following error: 

"You cannot delete an active connector manager. Delete the connectors under
this connector manager first, then delete the connector manager."

I tried deleting the connector instances first. The first time I click
Delete on the connector instance, I get the following error:

"The HTTP response failed with the following code: 502."

The connector instance is still shown on the Connectors page. If I click
Delete again, I get the following error:

"The following connector can't be found: livelink."

The "livelink" connector has now been removed from the page. I don't have
any other instances, so the page now says "There are no connectors
defined." as it usually does.

As far as I can tell, there are now no connector instances configured, but
deleting the connector manager instance still shows the original error message.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Connector Manager revision 292 and the GSA hosted at 8.6.49.37.

Please provide any additional information below.

The only way I have found to delete these connector manager instances is
make it work again somehow. In some cases, that's trivial, but suppose that
an off-board Connector Manager installation has been completely removed.
You might be able to play DNS or reverse proxy games to redirect the
deleted connector manager location URL to a functioning connector manager.

If I have quasi-deleted connector instances while the connector manager
instance wasn't working, I have to get the connector manager instance
working again, and then recreate those connector instances, before I can
delete the connector instances and then, finally, successfully delete the
connector manager instance. If I have reconnected to the original connector
manager instance, I also can't directly recreate deleted connector manager
instances through the GSA admin console. I have to delete the connector
instance properties files and their parent directories by hand from the
connector-manager web application before I can recreate those connector
instances through the GSA admin console. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jl1615@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2007 at 1:33

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There's a typo here in the second to last sentence. It should say "recreate 
deleted
connector instances". It's the connector instances that are a problem when the
Connector Manager still has properties files for them, and not the connector 
manager
instances.

Original comment by jl1615@gmail.com on 3 May 2007 at 9:03

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This has been fixed.  The GSA no longer stores the list of connectors locally. 
Therefore, if the Connector Manager is not working the GSA has no way to know if
there are any connectors and will go ahead and allow you to delete it.

Original comment by mgron...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2007 at 6:24

• Changed state: Fixed
• Added labels: Milestone-Release_1.0.0