Deleting an Auto-scaling Policy

You can delete an auto-scaling policy using the CLI tool, REST API or the PPaaS Console as shown below:

You will not be allowed to delete auto-scaling polices that are being used by deployed applications. If an autoscaling policy is being used by a deployed application, you will have to first undeploy the application to be able to delete the corresponding auto-scaling policy.

Deleting an auto-scaling policy via the CLI

Overview

CLI command	remove-autoscaling-policy
Description	Delete an auto-scaling policy.
Command format	remove-autoscaling-policy <AUTOSCALING_POLICY_ID>

Parameter definition

Short option	Long option	Description	Required	Example value
N/A	N/A	Auto-scaling policy ID.	Yes	`autoscaling-policy-1`

Example

Removing an auto-scaling policy with the ID: autoscaling-policy-1.

remove-autoscaling-policy autoscaling-policy-1

Sample output

Autoscaling policy deleted successfully: [autoscale-policy] autoscaling-policy-1

Deleting an auto-scaling policy via the REST API

Overview

Description	Delete an auto-scaling policy.
Resource Path	`/autoscalingPolicies/{autoscalingPolicyId}`
HTTP Method	`DELETE`
Request/Response Format	`application/json`
Command format	curl -X DELETE -H "Content-Type: application/json" -k -v -u <USERNAME>:<PASSWORD> https://<PRIVATE_PAAS_HOST>:<PRIVATE_PAAS_HTTPS_PORT>/api/autoscalingPolicies/{autoscalingPolicyId} By default, `<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>` is `admin:admin.` By default, `<PRIVATE_PAAS_HOST>` is `localhost.` However, if you are using a public IP, the respective IP address or domain needs to be specified. By default, `<PRIVATE_PAAS_HTTPS_PORT>` has been set to 9443. However, if the port offset has been incremented by `n`, the default port value needs to be incremented by `n`.

Example

Removing an auto-scaling policy with the ID: autoscaling-policy-1 .

curl -X DELETE -H "Content-Type: application/json" -k -v -u admin:admin https://localhost:9443/api/autoscalingPolicies/autoscaling-policy-1

Sample output

> DELETE /api/autoscalingPolicies/autoscaling-policy-1 HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:9443
> Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=
> User-Agent: curl/7.43.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 05:45:23 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Server: WSO2 Carbon Server
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{"status":"success","message":"Autoscaling policy deleted successfully: [autoscale-policy] autoscaling-policy-1"}

You will come across the following HTTP status codes while deleting an auto-scaling policy:

HTTP status code

200, 404, 500

See the descriptions of the HTTP status codes here.

Deleting an auto-scaling policy via the PPaaS Console

Follow the instructions below to delete an auto-scaling policy:

You can not delete auto-scaling polices that are being used by deployed applications. If an autoscaling policy is being used by a deployed application, you need to first undeploy the application to be able to delete the corresponding auto-scaling policy.

Click Configurations on the home page.
Click Auto-scaling Policies.
Hover your mouse pointer over the auto-scaling policy that you wish to delete for the Delete button to appear and click Delete.
Click Yes to delete the auto-scaling policy.