Performing a silent upgrade of the portal on Windows

You can perform an unattended (silent) upgrade of BladeLogic Portal on a Windows system.

This topic contains the following sections:

Contents of the response file

A silent upgrade requires a short response file, which specifies the selections you would normally make during an interactive upgrade  Shown below are the contents of the response file.

###############################################################################
#
#
# Product: BMC Automation Portal 1.2.00
#
# To invoke in silent mode with options file:
# setup.exe -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE=<location of Upgrade_Options.txt>
###############################################################################

# Upgrade BMC Automation Portal 
-A featureBMCAutomationPortal

# Migrate the portal database (true|false) 
-J MIGRATE_PORTAL_DB=true

Before you begin

• The installation must run on a 64-bit Microsoft Windows 2008 or 2012 operating system.

• A database must be set up prior to installation. Currently, for Windows installations, the database must be running on Microsoft SQL Server (see Setting up a SQL Server database). The database should reside on the same LAN as this installation of BladeLogic Portal.

• BMC Server Automation must be installed and its Application Server started. The Application Server should reside on the same LAN as this installation of BladeLogic Portal.

• Web services must be enabled on BMC Server Automation by establishing a communication path (via REST APIs) between the BMC Server Automation Application Server and the server hosting BladeLogic Portal.
• Other applications cannot use ports that you allocate to the BladeLogic Portal server.
• You must obtain the necessary installation files. See Downloading the installation files.

To upgrade the portal in silent mode

1. Copy the installation file, BMCAUTOPORTAL12_Win64.zip, to an appropriate location on the computer where you are installing the portal. 
2. Extract the contents of BMCAUTOPORTAL12_Win64.zip. 
   This extraction generates a file structure where the top level directory is named BladeLogicPortal.

3. Navigate to \BladeLogicPortal\windows\Disk1.

4. Prepare a silent response file.
   1. Create a response file using the sample file shown above.

   2. Follow the instructions in the sample file to specify upgrade choices.

   3. Save the response file and note its full name and path.

5. As Administrator, use a command line to enter the following command: 
   setup.exe -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE=<Path of silent response file>