Silent agent installation program

The wt-silent.exe program is a standard feature of current BMC Defender versions, residing in the s-doc directory of the BMC Defender Server. The program allows the agent program to install at a command line without a GUI or console. The program accepts a single argument, that is the destination IP address to send messages. Otherwise, the program operates in a fashion identical to the standard installer.

The wt-silent.exe program installs the software in a folder where the package gets executed (that might be different than the location of the wt-silent.exe package). The package creates a sub-folder called wintools that contains all the files necessary to run the agent.

Note

The location of the installed files are the current working directory where the program gets executed and not the working directory or location of the wt-silent.exe package.

Example

Consider the case where the wt-silent.exe program is in the users path. The agent is to be installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\wintools folder, and is to send messages to the BMC Defender Server running at IP address 192.168.1.1

In that case, you can execute the following commands in the command prompt:

cd "C:\program Files (x86)"
Wt-silent.exe 192.168.1.1

The preceding command creates the wintools folder within the C:\program files (x86) folder, then installs files in the wintools folder, installs the BMC Defender syslog message service and starts the service. This usually takes about 10–20 seconds to complete.

The wintools folder location is built into the wt-silent.exe program. You cannot change this value. If you have special considerations in this area, you can request this change from program support.

Note

wt-silent.exe can be executed with no command-line arguments to display version and help information, including information on the location where the agent gets installed.

Silent agent installation program

BMC Defender Agent for SAP 5.9

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