Silent mode installation

The silent installation is run by using a previously created silent input properties file. You can generate the install.properties input file in two ways:

• Run a wizard-based graphical installation using setup.bin with the -Dpreparesilent=true option. When the installation procedure completes, the install.properties file is created in the <EEZ_INSTALL_ROOT>/install subdirectory of the product installation path. When an update installation is performed, the file is read to obtain the parameters and values needed for the update process. If this file is not found, the update installation fails.

  If you want to perform a silent installation of Service Management Unite Automation on more than one system, you can take the install.properties file which was generated during a graphical installation, and use it on other systems of the same type. You might need to replace system-specific parameters in the file to customize it for the target system.

• You can prepare an install.properties file without performing a complete installation on the target system. The first part of the installation procedure gathers all the necessary parameters needed to generate the install.properties file. You do this by starting the graphical installer on the target system with the options -Dpreparesilent=true and -Dpropertiesfileonly=true. With these options, the installation procedure stops before the product files are copied to the product directory. The install.properties file is created and stored in directory /tmp.

  If you want the file to be created in a specific path, you can optionally specify -Dpropertiesfilepath=<fully_qualified_path>. If the specified path is incorrect, the file is saved in the default temporary directory on the system.

For example, if you want the file to be saved to /var/mydir, use the following command:

setup.bin -Dpreparesilent=true -Dpropertiesfileonly=true -Dpropertiesfilepath=/var/mydir