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Run an Unattended Configuration

Before you run an unattended configuration, you should have completed the following tasks:

• an initial (attended) Web Agent installation
• an initial (attended) Web Agent configuration
• modification of the ca-wa-installer.properties file

  You use this file to run subsequent unattended Web Agent configurations

• an installation (attended or unattended) on the system where you want to run the unattended configuration. This installation makes the configuration executable available.

To run an unattended Web Agent configuration

1. From a system where the Web Agent is already installed, copy the ca-wa-installer.properties file from web_agent_home/install_config_info to a local directory on the system where you want to run an unattended configuration.
2. Open a console window and navigate to web_agent_home/install_config_info.

   Important! If you are running a SiteMinder utility or executable on Windows Server 2008, be sure to open the command–line window with Administrator permissions, even if you are logged into the system as an Administrator. For more information, see the release notes for your SiteMinder component.

   Note: You must run the unattended configuration from the install_config_info directory because the configuration executable file must remain in this directory.

3. Run the following command:

   agent_config_executable -f properties_file -i silent

   For example, if you copied the properties file to the install_config_info directory, the command would be:

   Windows:

   ca-wa-config.exe -f ca-wa-installer.properties -i silent

   UNIX:

   ca-wa-config.bin -f ca-wa-installer.properties -i silent

   If you do not copy the properties file to the install_config_info directory, specify the full path to this file in the command. If there are spaces in the directory path, enclose the entire path between quotation marks.

   When the configuration is complete, you return to the command prompt.

4. Check to see if the configuration completed successfully by looking in the CA_SiteMinder_Web_Agent_version_InstallLog.log file, located in the web_agent_home/install_config_info directory. This log file contains the results of the configuration.