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Run the Unattended or Silent Installation and Configuration Programs for Subsequent Agents on Windows

The unattended or silent installation option can help you automate the installation and configuration process. This method saves time if you have a large CA SiteMinder® environment that uses many agents with identical settings.

For example, suppose the Agents in your environment use the same web server version, installation directory, Agent Configuration Object and Policy Servers. Use the installation wizard or console-based installation program for your first installation. Afterwards, you could create your own script to run the installation program with the .properties file the wizard or console-based installation program created.

Follow these steps:

1. Run the following wizards on your first web server (in the order shown):
   1. The CA SiteMinder® Web Agent Installation wizard.
   2. The CA SiteMinder® Web Agent Configuration wizard.
2. Locate the following file on your first web server:

   web_agent_home\install_config_info\ca-wa-installer.properties
   

   Note: If the path contains spaces, surround it with quotes.

   web_agent_home

   Indicates the directory where the CA SiteMinder® agent is installed on your web server.

   Default (Windows 32-bit installations only): C:\Program Files\CA\webagent

   Default (Windows 64-bit installations only): C:\Program Files\CA\webagent\win64

   Default (Windows 32-bit applications operating on 64-bit systems [Wow64]): C:\Program Files (x86)\webagent\win32

3. Perform each of the following steps on the other web servers in your environment:

   Note: To automate this process, create your own customized script to execute these files on your systems. Use any scripting language that you want.

   1. Create a temporary directory on the subsequent web server.
   2. Copy the following files from the first web server (Steps 1 and 2) to the temporary directory on your subsequent web server:
      • The CA SiteMinder® Web Agent Installation executable file.
      • CA SiteMinder® ca-wa-installer properties file.
   3. Open a Command Prompt window with Administrative privileges in the temporary directory.
   4. Run the following command:

      agent_executable -f properties_file -i silent
      

      The CA SiteMinder® agent is installed and configured on the subsequent server silently.

   5. (Optional) Delete the temporary directory from your subsequent web server.
4. Repeat Step 3 for each additional web server in your CA SiteMinder® environment that uses the configuration that the settings in your ca-wa-installer.properties file specify.