Deleting a collector

this section describes how to delete a collector service to delete a collector instance in the historian webpage as well, one needs to contact factry support the best practice is to updating a collector manually docid\ leqkpxddjqenepmncv45c in the historian webpage to a new collector service, before deleting the existing collector service collectors without active measurements can be deleted it is recommended to stop the collector service after deleting the collector to stop it from attempting to send data to the historian delete a collector service before deleting a collector service, make sure to stop the collector service first to enable data continuity when switching collector services for a collector instance in the historian webpage, make sure to link the collector instance to a new collector service before deletion example collector service example collector service the service name of the collector is named after its uuid in the historian the uuid of a collector can be found by selecting the according collector in the historian webpage and looking at the id in the collector details on the right side of the screen an example uuid and the according collector service name windows service first, lookup the service name of the collector by clicking on the according collector service in the windows service manager stop the service in the service manager before deleting the collector service by executing the following command in a cmd administrator terminal sc delete "factry collector service name" linux service (systemd) perform the following commands on a sudo terminal on the linux machine to stop, disable and remove the service from the system daemon systemctl stop factry collector service name systemctl disable factry collector service name rm /etc/systemd/system/factry collector service name service systemctl daemon reload