Hi lovely people,

I feel like I'm going round and round in circles for what surely cannot be that complicated an answer.

I want to deploy Rational Performance Test via Config Manager to the required devices.

1. I can successfully install IBM Installation Manager (admin mode) via SCCM
2. I downloaded the correct version of Performance Tester and ran the setup file to create a response file and not install. It did that and it created .RSP file (I note in most of the documentation they refer to an XML file have I created the response file correctly?)
3. there are a number of different command lines then said to do the install I've tried a lot with different error or failure messages. The batch file section under https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/deploy-configure-update-ibm-software/index.html feels like the right one to use accept I don't see a correlation for it to know where to grab the install file info from, which might be a me thing in the response file creation. and if I do run it the error produced with this batch file is

ERROR: Failed to read response file.

ERROR: Problem in C:\Temp\temp\PROD_CLIENT.rsp at line 1: Content is not allowed in prolog.

00:00.31 ERROR [main] com.ibm.cic.agent.core.application.HeadlessApplication run

Failed to read response file. Problem in C:\Temp\temp\PROD_CLIENT.rsp at line 1: Content is not allowed in prolog

does anyone have a handy step by step guide for creating the response file and then using it to install silently? the IBM documentation is all over the place and not user friendly

Hi, this technote is a bit out of date as far as screenshots, but the process is still valid

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/creating-silent-installation-script-rational-performance-tester-85-windows-64-bit

Step 4. is doing a mock install just to generate a response file

Step 5. is using that response file for an actual install.

Thank you

thanks for that what your link had confirmed for me was I actually had the wrong software to begin with, and what I learn't is I needed to remove the OS from the download page to actually get the correct modules to download as opposed to the database2 install instead. Then following your link I was able to create the correct response file for install