Performing a silent installation of the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server

This page provides information about performing a silent installation of the Infrastructure Management Integration Server and contains the following topics:

Performing a silent installation of the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server on Microsoft Windows

For silent installation, you must encrypt the passwords and use the encrypted passwords in the .options file. For more information about encrypting the passwords that are required for silent installation, see Encrypting passwords in the options file.

Perform the following steps to install BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server on Microsoft Windows:

  1. From the command prompt, go to the install.cmd file in the \BPPMServer\Disk1 directory. 
  2. Customize the server_install.options file as required, which is available in the \BPPMServer\Disk1 directory.

  3. To install the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server by using the server_install.options file, enter the following command at the command prompt:

    install.cmd -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE=<fullyQualifiedPath>\server_install.options

    where fullyQualifiedPath indicates the complete path where you have saved the server_install.options file. If the fullyQualifiedPath parameter contains a space in it, the path must be enclosed within double quotes.

    install.cmd -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE="C:\Program Files\BPPM Installation\server_install.options"


Note

Installation-related information is not displayed on the console when the silent installation begins. However, installation occurs in the background. The progress of the installation is logged in a temporary folder during the installation. Go to Start > Run, enter %temp% in the Open box, and see the bppm_server_install_log.txt file for the installation progress details and for the database-related progress details.

Performing a silent installation of the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server on Linux or Solaris

For silent installation, you must encrypt the passwords and use the encryptei passwords in the .options file. For more information about encrypting the passwords that are required for silent installation, see Encrypting passwords in the options file.

Perform the following steps to install BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server on Linux or Solaris operating systems:

  1. From the command prompt, go to the install.sh file in the BPPMServer/Disk1 directory. 
  2. Customize the server_install.options file as required, which is available in the following directory:
    • (Linux) Linux/BPPMServer/Disk1
    • (Solaris) Solaris/BPPMServer/Disk1

  3. To install the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server by using the server_install.options file, run the following command at the command prompt:

    ./install.sh -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE=<fullyQualifiedPath>/server_install.options

     
    where fullyQualifiedPath indicates the complete path where you have saved the server_install.options file. If the fullyQualifiedPath parameter contains a space in it, the path must be enclosed within double quotes.

    Example

    install.sh -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE="/opt/BPPM Installation/server_install.options"

Note

Installation-related information is not displayed when silent installation begins. However, installation occurs in the background. Open /tmp or /var/tmp, and see the bppm_server_install_log.txt file for the installation progress details and for the database-related progress details.

 

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