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Diragent.rsp is missing comment - IBM Director 5.20.1

Troubleshooting


Problem

When performing a silent or unattended installation of IBM Director 5.20.1 agent on a supported version of Microsoft Windows with modified diragent.rsp, the network driver configuration in IBM Director 5.20.1 is not updated, but instead shows the defaults.

Resolving The Problem

Source

RETAIN tip: H191846

Symptom

When performing a silent or unattended installation of IBM Director 5.20.1 agent on a supported version of Microsoft Windows with modified diragent.rsp, the network driver configuration in IBM Director 5.20.1 is not updated, but instead shows the defaults.

The user can check by running: \Director\bin\twgipccf.exe

Affected configurations

This tip is not hardware specific.

This tip is not option specific.

The system is configured with at least one of the following:

  • IBM Director, 5.20.1

Note: This does not imply that the network operating system will work under all combinations of hardware and software.

Please see the compatibility page for more information:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/
Solution

An updated diragent.rsp is planned for the next release of IBM Director 5.20. The next release of IBM Director 5.20, which is v5.20.2, is planned for Fourth Quarter 2007.

Workaround

The recommendation is to add a semi-colon (;) to line 74 of diragent.rsp and then Save.

By default, diragent.rsp is located in \FILES directory of IBM Director 5.20.1 agent install package.

Additional information

Line 74 in the diragent.rsp for IBM Director 5.20.1 agent for Microsoft Windows has not been commented out. The installer interprets the line as invalid and ignores the rest of the response file. Below is the section of diragent.rsp showing the cause of the issue: .

. .

71:

; 72: RemoveWBA = Y

73: ;

74: ============================================================

75: ; .

. .

Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

System Management software:All operating systems listed

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Document Information

Modified date:
29 January 2019

UID

ibm1MIGR-5072747