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Configure a Policy Store

If you did not use the Policy Server installer to configure a policy store automatically, manually configure a supported LDAP directory server or relational database as a policy store.

Install a Policy Server Using the Unattended Installer

After you have installed one or more SOA Security Manager components on one machine, you can reinstall those components on the same machine or install them with the same options on another machine using an unattended installation mode. An unattended installation lets you install or uninstall SOA Security Manager components without any user interaction

The unattended installation uses the ca-soasmversion-installer.properties file generated during the initial install from the information you specified to define the necessary installation parameters, passwords, paths, and so on.

version

Specifies the SOA Security Manager software version. For example r12.1_sp3.

The ca-soasmversion-installer.properties file is located in: SOA_HOME\install_config_info

SOA_HOME

Specifies the SOA Security Manager installation location. By default, this is:

• Windows: C:\Program Files\CA\SOA Security Manager
• UNIX: ~/CA/SOA_Security_Manager

To run the installer in the unattended installation mode

1. From a system where SOA Security Manager is already installed, copy the ca-soasmversion-installer.properties file to a local directory on your system.
2. Download the SOA Security Manager distribution from the Technical Support site.

   Note: For a list of installation media names for each operating system, see the installation and upgrade considerations in the Release Notes.

3. Copy the installation media into the same local directory as the ca-soasmversion-installer.properties file.
4. Open a console window and navigate to the location where you copied the files.
5. Run the following command:

   installation_media -f ca-soasmversion-installer.properties
   -i silent
   

   Important! If you are running this wizard on Windows Server 2008, run the executable file with Administrator permissions, even if you are logged into the system as an Administrator. For more information, see the Release Notes.

   The -i silent setting instructs the installer to run in the unattended installation mode.

   Note: If the ca-soasmversion-installer.properties file is not in the same directory as the installation program, use double quotes if the argument contains spaces.

   Windows example:

   installation_media -f "C:\Program Files\CA\SOA Security Manager\install_config_info\ca-soasmr12-installer.properties" -i silent
   

   Unix example:

   installation_media -f ~/CA/SOA_Security_Manager/install_config_info/ca-soasmr12-installer.properties" -i silent
   

   An InstallAnywhere status bar appears, which shows that the unattended SOA Security Manager installer has begun. The installer uses the parameters specified in the ca-soasmversion-installer.properties file.

To stop the installation manually, follow the instructions for your platform:

Windows: Open the Windows Task Manager and stop the installation_media process.

UNIX: Type Ctrl+C.

To check if the unattended installation completed successfully, see the CA_SOA_Security_Manager_version_InstallLog.log file in the SOA_HOME/install_config_info directory. This log file contains the results of the installation.