Silent / Scripted Install for BESR 7.0

[B__Watson]

Can anyone point me to the documentation on scripting a silent install. It's not in the user guide, and I can't seem to find the specific BESR 7 switches.

TIA,

[Bill_Felt]

I'm highly confident that such documentation exists somewhere.  I'll see what I can find.

[Markus_Koestler]

The same switches apply to version 7 as they did to version 6.X.

What exactly do you want to do ?

[Kurt_Hodneland]

In version 6.5.4 I use theese switches/parameters to perform a silent installation/upgrade:

Setup.exe /S /V"/qn ADDLOCAL=Console,Shared,Push,Agent,SPNRegister,Gear,Ghost,LightsOut REBOOT=R SAVEDATA=0"

If I use the same switches/parameters when upgrading from 6.5.4 to 7.0, it failed.

I replase /qn with /qb, and I see that the installation stops when trying to install SPNRegister, and so on.

What is the correct switches/parameters to make a complete silent installation.?

[Markus_Koestler]

setup.exe /s /v"/qb! PQPUSH=1 REBOOT=R"

[Henrik_W]

Hi,

Isnt PQPUSH=1 a 3.x option...? And was replaced with ADDLOCAL in 6.5.

//Henrik

[Markus_Koestler]

That's true, but it works. We've installed nearly 300 servers with this options.

[Kurt_Hodneland]

I have now tested a silent upgrade from 6.5.4. to 7.0 with theese switches.

Setup.exe /S /V" /qn REBOOT=R SAVEDATA=0

Then I get a complete silent installation including LiveUpdate service.

(Actually, I don't want LiveUpdate Service to be installed.)

[Markus_Koestler]

Have you tried the to add the ADDLOCAL switch mentioned before in addition to your three switches ?

[B__Watson]

Sorry, I should have been a little clearer. I'm looking for ALL the command line variables for BESR 7.0, this includes all the BESR 7.0 ADDLOCAL variables. I know some of the 6.x variables will work, however that is not what I'm looking for (thanks anyways).

I'd like to know all my options, before I write the installation scripts. For example we don't have/allow CD-RW's in our servers, so I would like to strip this component out during the installation.

Does anyone know a way to query an MSI, and get all the public and private variables?

TIA,

[GWhite]

I'm trying to perform an upgrade from LSR 6.0.2 to BESR 6.5.0.17171

I'd like to accomplish the following:

Silent install

Save the configuration information

Reboot the server after the upgrade

I'm trying to perform the following command:

setup.exe /s /v" /qn REBOOT=R SAVEDATA=1"

However, it still prompts me with the following dialog window:

"If you intend to upgrade or reinstall this product in the future, do you want to keep user data such as backup jobs, histories and command files?"

Why isn't the SAVEDATA=1 command working?  The server is not rebooting either.

Can someone help me out?

Thank you

[Kurt_Hodneland]

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Anyway, here is the correct parameters to do a silent install/upgrade  of BESR 7.0

SETUP.EXE /s /v" /qn AddLocal=Console,Shared,Agent,Browser,LiveUpdate,BESRConsoleShortCut,Gear,BESRSecurityShortCut,BESRBrowserShortCut REBOOT=R SAVEDATA=0"

Reboot=R for not automatic reboot

Savedata=0 to keep the scedule from earlier version.

[Kurt_Hodneland]

Sorry! It din't look like that when I was typing....

Setup.exe /S /V" /qn Addlocal=Cosole,........

If you want an automatic reboot, remove completly REBOOT=R parameter.