Automating is relatively easy. You can do this directly from the installer as it is capable of creating both images and installation scripts.
Step 1 - Create Image
When running Installer, select the advanced button, go to the image tab and and select the option to create an image. You will notice that after selecting the product it won’t ask you for any configuration info.
Step 2 - Install whilst creating a script
Run the installer again. Click on the advanced button (again) and this type select install from an image in the images tab and select the image file you created in step 1. Now go to the scripts tab and choose to create a script. Then proceed with the installation. It will be much quicker to present the software because it will be based on the local image. Go through the installation process until the end.
Step 3 - Customise & Automate
You now have an image and script to allow installer to be run without human interface. You can even modify the script manually as it is a text file i.e. if you want to change the license file location or the same for the image file. You can now run the installer from a script without requiring any manual intervention e.g.
./SoftwareAGInstaller-LinuxX86.bin -installDir /opt/softwareag -readScript /software/installer-script.txt
If you want to go to the next level and automate distributed installation and reach maximum Nirvana, then you can use Command Central to do that, but that’s only really useful if you have 100’s of installations to manage.
regards,
John.
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