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Run the Unattended Installation (Policy Server Option Pack)

You should have completed an initial Policy Server Option Pack installation and, if necessary, modified the nete-ps-opack-installer.properties file. Now you can use the file to run subsequent Policy Server Option Pack installations.

To run an unattended installation

1. From a system where the Policy Server is already installed, copy the following files to a local directory.
   • nete-ps-opack-6.0-sp6-win32.exe (Windows) or the binary nete-ps-opack-6.0-sp6-operating_system.bin (UNIX)
   • nete-ps-opack-installer.properties file from policy_server_home/install_config_info
2. Place these files onto your local system.
3. Open a console window and navigate to the directory where you copied the two files.
4. Run the Policy Server Option Pack executable with the -f and -i silent options, as follows:

   siteminder_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 is:

   Windows:

   nete-ps-opack-6.0-sp6-win32.exe -f nete-ps-opack-installer.properties -i silent

   Important! Before running a SiteMinder utility or executable on Windows Server 2008, open the command line window with Administrator permissions. Open the command line window this way, even if your account has Administrator privileges. For more information, see the release notes for your SiteMinder component.

   Note: If you are not running the command from the location where the files reside, specify the complete path to these files. If there are spaces in the path to the directory, enclose the entire path between quotation marks.

   UNIX (Solaris example):

   ./nete-ps-opack-6.0-sp6-sol.bin -f nete-ps-opack-installer.properties -i silent

   The status dialog opens and shows the unattended installation in process.

5. Check if the installation completed successfully by looking at the CA_SiteMinder_Option_Pack_v6.0_SP6 for_Policy_Server_InstallLog.log file, located in the policy_server_home/install_config_info directory. This log file contains the results of the installation.