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Run an Unattended Installation on Windows

You should have completed an initial Web Agent installation and, if necessary, modified the ca-wa-installer.properties file. Now, you can use the file to run subsequent Web Agent installations.

To run an unattended Web Agent installation

1. From a system where the Web Agent is already installed, copy the following files to a local directory:
   1. ca-wa-version-win32.exe (Agent executable) from where it resides on your system.
   2. ca-wa-installer.properties file from web_agent_home\install_config_info
2. Open a command window and navigate to the directory where you copied the files.

   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.

3. Run the installation executable with the -f and - i silent options, as shown in the following example:

   agent_executable -f properties_file -i silent

   Assuming that you run the installation from the directory where the executable and properties file are located, the command would be:

   ca-wa-<version>-win32.exe -f ca-wa-installer.properties -i silent

   Note: If you are not at the directory where these files reside, you must specify the full path to each file. If there are spaces in the directory paths, enclose the entire path between quotation marks.

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

4. Check to see if the installation 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 installation.
5. Register the trusted host and configure the Web Agent.

   Note: If you are configuring an Agent on an IIS 6.0 server, do not configure the Agent immediately after installation. There are some setup procedures you need to perform before configuring the Agent.