Silently installing IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SQL Server on Windows Server Core with the Microsoft Installer program

You can use the Microsoft Installer (MSI) program, msiexec.exe, to implement a silent installation of IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot for SQL Server. If you are protecting Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and later versions, you can also use the MSI program to silently install IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SQL Server on Windows Server Core.

Before you begin

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot must be installed from an account that is a member of the local Administrators group for the system on which the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft Exchange Server or IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server is running.

Important: Unlike the spinstall.exe program, the msiexec.exe program does not install any prerequisites. When you use msiexec.exe, you must install all prerequisites manually.

Procedure

To install Microsoft Management Console (MMC), enter each of these msiexec commands on a single line from a Run as Administrator command line. 
msiexec /i "x:\fcm\aaa\mmc\8120\enu\IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.msi" 
RebootYesNo="No" Reboot="ReallySuppress" ALLUSERS=1 
INSTALLDIR="c:\program files\tivoli" ADDLOCAL="Client" 
TRANSFORMS="x:\fcm\aaa\mmc\8120\enu\1033.mst" /qn /l*v "c:\temp\log_fcm.log"

where x: is your DVD drive and aaa is either x86 or x64.

What to do next

Important:
  • You must place quotation marks (") around the following items:
    • A directory path that contains spaces.
    • An argument that specifies multiple features. Although you must use quotation marks around the complete argument, you must still place a backslash before each internal quotation mark.
  • All features that are listed in a custom installation must be specified after the addlocal option.