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Unattended Install

To do an unattended install, you must first build a response file using the InstallShield setup command. This builds a response file tailored to your installation. You can build one response file and use it on many systems. You need separate response files only if you want different options for the install on some machines. Then you can run an unattended InstallShield installation using the setup command.

If you need to run tpsetup, you should run it after the install is complete. After the installation, you need to restart the PC.

Here are the commands to accomplish this:

  1. Change directory to the path location where you have the InstallShield setup.exe program.
  2. Issue the command setup.exe /r, which creates the setup.iss file in your WINDOWS directory. This file may be created in a different directory depending on your operating system. The file setup.iss contains all the parameters of your install.
  3. Issue the following command: 
    setup.exe /r /f1"C:\YourPath\setup.iss"

    This command creates the setup.iss file in the YourPath directory. If the /f1 parameter is not specified, it defaults to setup.iss in your WINDOWS directory.

    Note: The file may be created in a different directory, depending on your operating system.

    The file setup.iss contains all the parameters of your install.

  4. When this is completed, issue one of the following commands depending on your site requirements. The first command will run the silent install but the system SYSID and SYSNAME parameters will be set to default values. The second command will run the silent install but the /z parameter is specified which allows the administrator to customize the values of the system SYSID and SYSNAME parameters. 
    setup.exe /s /f1"C:\YourPath\setup.iss"

    setup.exe /s /f1"C:\YourPath\setup.iss" /z"\"SYSID=xxxx,SYSNAME=yyyyyyyy\""
    xxxx

    The one- to four-character System ID that you have selected for this CA XCOM Data Transport installation.

    yyyyyyyy

    The one- to eight-character System Name that you have selected for this CA XCOM Data Transport installation.

    Together, the System ID and System Name are used to uniquely identify this specific CA XCOM Data Transport system.

Substitute your full path name or drive letter in the preceding example, if appropriate.

Note: Silent (unattended) installation does not display any dialog boxes if there is an error. Instead, status information for the silent install or uninstall is written (by default) to a file called setup.log in the same directory where the response file is located. InstallShield may give warnings about various files that may be open. These messages should be ignored. Any file that InstallShield actually needs to update is always updated automatically after the system is restarted. The updates are saved in the temp directory and are updated after the restart.