[Enterprise Extensions only]

Performing an unattended installation on UNIX

Two sample installation scripts, both named install.script, are provided on your Enterprise Edition Server and Client CD; one is for server installations and one is for client installations. To perform an unattended installation on UNIX platforms, copy the relevant install.script file to a temporary directory and modify it as explained below.

Note: For any server installation, you must already have the Advanced Edition application server installed as a base. For Java and ActiveX client installations, you must already have the Advanced Edition J2EE application client installed. The CORBA client installation does not require an Advanced Edition base.

To perform an unattended installation on UNIX, complete the following steps. These steps assume that you have already installed Advanced Edition where necessary (on Java servers, CORBA C++ servers, and Java or ActiveX clients). These steps apply to both new installations, and migration from an existing Version 4.0.x installation.

  1. Insert your Enterprise Edition Server and Client CD into the CD-ROM drive.
  2. AIX only: If you have not mounted the CD-ROM drive enter the following mount command now:
    mount -r -v cdrfs <CD_device> cdrom
  3. Change to the installation image directory on the CD:
    • Unix server:
      cd /cdrom/enterprise/your_platform/EnterpriseEdition
    • Unix client (all one line):
      cd /cdrom/enterprise/your_platform/EnterpriseEdition/
      client/your_platform
  4. Locate the sample response file, install.script in the installation image directory, and copy this file to a temporary directory. For example:
    cp install.script /tmp
  5. Optional: Modify the install.script file in your temporary directory to include only the enterprise services that you want to install. If you are migrating from an existing Version 4.0.x installation, you must include all existing enterprise services, but you can also add new ones at this time:
    1. Open install.script in a text editor.
    2. Near the top of the install.script file is a section marked "User modifiable area." Within this section is a list of installable packages, in the format package_XXX=false, where XXX is the name of the package. For each package (service) that you want to install, change the value from false to true. Do not change anything below the line marked as "END User modifiable area".
    3. Save and exit the file.
  6. To start the unattended installation, enter the following command in your installation image directory:
    ./setup /p /tmp/install.script

An alternative method for generating the modified install.script file is to run the desired installation in interactive mode using the record parameter. For example:

./setup /r /tmp/install.script
This generates an install.script file that you can copy to other machines in order to run identical unattended installations.