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Unattended Mode Installation

This section contains the following topics:

How to Run an Unattended Mode Installation

How to Run an Unattended Mode Installation

After the Web Agent Option Pack is installed on one system, you can automate installations on other Web or application servers using the Web Agent Option Pack's unattended mode installation. An unattended mode installation lets you install or uninstall the Web Agent Option Pack without any user intervention.

To run an unattended mode installation, you must:

1. Run an installation in GUI or Console mode to install the unattended installation properties file.
2. Modify the properties file.
3. Run the unattended installation.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Prepare an Unattended Mode Installation
• Run an Unattended Mode Installation
• Stop an Unattended Mode Installation in Progress

Prepare an Unattended Mode Installation

An unattended mode installation uses the ca-wa-opack-installer.properties file to propagate the Option Pack installation set-up across all servers in your network. You can define the installation parameters in the properties file then copy the properties file and the Web Agent Option Pack executable file to any applicable server in your network. After the files are copied, you can run an unattended installation.

To prepare an unattended mode installation

1. Run an initial installation of the Web Agent Option Pack in GUI or Console mode.

   This installation will install the ca-wa-opack-installer.properties file.

2. Open the ca-wa-opack-installer.properties file, and if needed, modify the settings.

   The properties file is in the directory web_agent_opack_home/install_config_info.

   USER_INSTALL_DIR

   Specifies the Web Agent Option Pack's installation location.

   USER_REQUESTED_RESTART

   Specifies restarting the machine after installation.

   Note: These default values were saved in the properties file during the initial installation.

3. Save the properties file.

Run an Unattended Mode Installation

You can run an unattended mode installation.

Follow these steps:

1. Be sure that you have completed the preparation steps.
2. Copy the following files to a local directory on the system where you want to install the option pack.
   • Web Agent Option Pack executable or binary
     • ca-wa-opack-version-windows_platform.exe
     • ca-wa-opack-version-operating_system.bin
   • ca-wa-opack-installer.properties
3. Open a console window and navigate to the location where you copied the files.
4. Execute the following command:

   webagent_option_pack_executable -f properties_file -i silent

   Windows example:

   ca-wa-opack-12.51-win32.exe -f ca-wa-opack-installer.properties -i silent

   Solaris example:

   ./ca-wa-opack-12.51-sol.bin -f ca-wa-opack-installer.properties -i silent

   These examples assume that you are running the installation from the directory containing the executable and properties files. If you are not running the installation from this directory, specify the full path to these files. If there are spaces in the directory path, enclose the entire path in quotation marks.

   The progress of the unattended installation is displayed. When the installation is complete, the command prompt is redisplayed.

5. Determine that the installation completed successfully by viewing the log file CA_SiteMinder_Option_Pack_12.51_for_Web_Agent_ InstallLog.log. This file is located in the directory web_agent_opack_home/install_config_info.

Stop an Unattended Mode Installation in Progress

Follow these steps:

Windows

Open the Windows Task Manager, and stop the following two processes:

• ca-wa-opack-12.51-win32.exe
• wa_option_pack.exe

UNIX

Type Ctrl+C.