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Run an Unattended Installation on Windows

You should have completed an initial Web Agent installation and, if necessary, modified the nete-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. nete-wa-version-win32.exe (Agent executable) from where it resides on your system.
    2. nete-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! 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.

  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:

    nete-wa-<version>-win32.exe -f nete-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.

More Information

How to Configure a SiteMinder Web Agent on IIS 6.0

How to Configure Any Web Agent in Unattended Mode