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Install a SOA Agent or SOA Security Gateway 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-soasmr12-installer.properties file generated during the initial install from the information you specified to define the necessary installation parameters, passwords, paths, and so on.

The ca-soasmr12-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-soasmr12-installer.properties to a local directory on your system.
2. Download the SOA Security Manager distribution to a temporary location from the Technical Support site:
   • Windows: soasm-r12.1-cr001-win32.zip
   • UNIX: soasm-r12.1-cr001-os_version.zip
   • os_version

     Specifies sol or linux.

3. Extract the Zip archive into the same local directory as the ca-soasmr12-installer.properties file.
4. Open a console window and navigate to the location where you copied the files.
5. Run the appropriate command for your operating system.

   Windows:

   ca-soasm-12.1-cr001-win32.exe -f ca-soasmr12-installer.properties
   -i silent
   

   UNIX:

   ca-soasm-12.1-cr001-os_version.bin -f ca-soasmr12-installer.properties
   -i silent
   

   When running this command, if the ca-soasmr12-installer.properties file is not in the same directory as the installation program, make sure you use double quotes if the argument contains spaces.

   For example, on Windows:

   ca-soasm-12.1-cr001-win32.exe -f "C:\Program Files\CA\SOA Security Manager\install_config_info\ca-soasmr12-installer.properties" -i silent
   

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

   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-soasmr12-installer.properties file.

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

Windows: Open the Windows Task Manager and stop the ca-soasm-12.1-cr001-win32.exe process.

UNIX: Type Ctrl+C.

To check if the unattended installation completed successfully, see the ca-soasmr12_InstallLog.log file in the soasm_installation/install_config_info directory. This log file contains the results of the installation.