# User Guide

## Deactivate Domain

When you deactivate a domain, it is no longer available for evaluation. If you later decide you want to evaluate it, you must first activate it again.

You use the Domain Deactivation Wizard to deactivate a domain. There are two different ways to invoke the Domain Deactivation Wizard:

- Select a domain in the Active Domain Table and click the Deactivate Domain button.
- Right-click a domain in the Domain Explorer and select Deactivate from the pop-up context menu.

The Domain Deactivation Wizard shows the domain selected when invoked. To deactivate it, click the Finish button. If you decide not to deactivate the domain, click the Cancel button instead.

When the deactivation completes, the domain remains in the Domain Explorer so that you can continue to access its previous Domain Inventories and Evaluation Summaries. But any shortcuts that use the domain are removed from the Shortcut Table and Shortcut Explorer.

To remove a deactivated domain from the Domain Explorer, select Purge Inactive Domains from the Tools menu. Purge Inactive Domains also deletes the Domain Inventories and Evaluation Summaries from the Guardian Workspace and removes the domain from the Guardian Registry.

Please note that the Domain Deactivation Wizard does not remove the BEA Guardian Agents that were installed during domain activation. To remove them manually, use the deployment tools provided with WebLogic Server. Guardian Agents are deployed as Web Application Archive (WAR) files with the name, "bea-guardian-agent". Deployment documentation can be found on the BEA eDocs website for:

- BEA WebLogic Server 8.1
- BEA WebLogic Server 9.1
- BEA WebLogic Server 9.2

#### Related Concepts

- Evaluation
- Domain
- Guardian Workspace
- Guardian Registry
- Guardian Agent

#### Related Tasks

- Activate Domain

#### Related Reference

- Domain Deactivation Wizard
- Active Domain Table
- Domain Explorer
- Shortcut Explorer
- Shortcut Table
- Domain Inventory
- Evaluation Summary