Specifications

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even thousands of users. In this instance, being able to automate the deployment saves you both time and
resources. Below are a few resources to help with automating your deployment:
• IBM Redpaper, Distributing Notes Clients Automatically , REDP-3693
•
Lotus Domino Administrator 8.5 Help topic, Automating client installation using a silent install
• Lotus Domino Administrator 8.5 Help topic, Setting up client installation and installation methods
• Lotus Domino Administrator 8.5 Help topic, Providing a batch file for installing the clients
You may choose to use a third-party tool in automating your deployment. However, be aware that IBM Lotus
would assist you as much as possible to make your deployment successful, but does not support the third-
party tool.
For network installation, it is recommended to expand the web kit file first. Otherwise the client will have to
do it, which will take more time.
Silent Install
This section explains how to set up a Notes Client without user intervention using a scriptable setup.
Although there is no way to avoid configuring the client altogether, much of the configuration can be
achieved behind the scenes so that you have limited user intervention through a process called "Scriptable
Setup."
The scriptable setup option uses a setting in the Notes.ini file to provide information to the client setup
wizard. During installation, the wizard displays only the panels that users need to set up the Notes client.
The Notes.ini parameter, ConfigFile= points to a text (.TXT) file that contains the parameters that the wizard
needs.
For example:
ConfigFile=C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data\setup.txt
The wizard reads the text file and completes the setup. The user is able to bypass the wizard screens for
parameters that have been provided by the text file.
The settings and parameters that you can use in the text file are listed in the Administrator Help file.
All or only some of these parameters can be used. Depending upon which parameters are used dictates
which of the setup screens the user may be presented with.
What follows is an example of a text file that would simply prompt the user for their password upon initial
login. Based on the parameters in this example text file, setup would be complete once the user's password
has been entered and the client has completed creating the Bookmark.nsf, Names.nsf, and so on.
Example for the file setup.txt:
Username=User Name/Acme
KeyfileName=c:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data\username.id
Domino.Name=servername/Acme
Domino.Address=servername.acme.com
Domino.Port=TCPIP