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Preparing Files and Testing Silent Installation

The most efficient way to deploy agents on additional hosts for a given operating environment is to configure sample connectors on the first agent, and then leverage this effort. After you create and test connectors on the first agent, you export those definitions. Then, you deploy a test agent by creating a response file that references Connectors.xml and performing a silent installation. If all goes well with this test deployment, you can confidently deploy all other planned agents with this same response file and same Connectors.xml.

The recommended process follows:

1. From the first agent, create and export connectors as Connectors.xml.
2. From a second test host, do the following:
   1. Load the Connectors.xml.
   2. Load the tar file and extract the contents, which includes the installation file.
   3. Create a response file.
   4. Perform a silent install.
   5. Verify that the results are what you want for widespread deployment. If they are not, refine the files as needed.