Install application clients silently

 

Overview

Use these steps to perform a silent installation, which uses the installation wizard to install the product. Instead of displaying a user interface, the silent installation provides interaction between you and the wizard by reading all of your responses from a file that customize.

 

Procedure

  1. Verify that the user ID that you are using to run the silent installation has sufficient authority to perform the task.

  2. Customize the option response file.

    1. Locate the sample options response file. The file name is setup.response in the operating system platform directory on the product CD-ROM.

    2. Make a copy to preserve the original response file. For example, copy the file as myoptionsfile.

    3. Edit the copy in your flat file editor of choice, on the target operating system. Read the directions within the response file to choose appropriate values.

      Note: To prepare the file for a silent installation on AIX, use UNIX line-end characters (0x0D0A) to terminate each line of the options response file.

    4. Make a non-commented option to have a silent install.

    5. Include custom option responses that reflect parameters for your system.

    6. Follow the instructions in the response file to choose appropriate values.

    7. Save the file.

  3. Issue a command to use your custom response file: Install.exe -options myoptionsfile for Windows platforms and install -options ./myoptionsfile for Linux and UNIX platforms.

    The sample options response file is located in the operating-system platform directory on the product CD-ROM.

    1. Issue the following command from a command prompt to update your response file: -W silentInstallLicenseAcceptance.value="true'.

      Issuing this command changes the value for silentInstallLicenseAcceptance.value from false to true, which is necessary for installing application clients.

  4. Optional: Restart your machine in response to the prompt that appears on Windows platforms when the installation is complete.

 

Result

You installed application clients silently by using the response file.

 

What to do next

To verify the silent install, look for the string RC=INSTCONFSUCCESS in the log file for successful installation and RC=INSTCONFFAILED for a failed install installation.

For UNIX platforms, the install command returns a return code of 1 to indicate a successful installation. Any other return code means that the installation failed.

 

Related Information


http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/latest/prereq.html