Installation manual

Mapping a Drive to Act as the Typical Unattended Installation Package

1. Share an image of the

Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation

DVD with each remote system on

which you want to install Server Administrator.

You can accomplish this task by directly sharing the DVD or by copying the entire DVD to a drive and sharing the

copy.

2. Create a script that maps a drive from the remote systems to the shared drive described in step 1. This script should

execute msiexec.exe /i Mapped Drive\SYSMGMT\srvadmin\windows\ SystemsManagement

\SysMgmt.msi /qb after the drive has been mapped.

3. Configure the ISV distribution software to distribute and execute the script created in step 2.

4. Distribute this script to the target systems by using the ISV software distribution tools.

The script executes to install Server Administrator on each remote system.

5. Reboot each remote system to enable Server Administrator.

Distributing the Entire DVD as the Typical Unattended Installation Package

1. Distribute the entire image of the

Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation

DVD to the target systems.

2. Configure the ISV distribution software to execute the msiexec.exe /i DVD Drive\SYSMGMT

\srvadmin\windows\SystemsManagement\SysMgmt.msi /qb

command from the DVD image.

The program executes to install Server Administrator on each remote system.

3. Reboot each remote system to enable Server Administrator.

Creating Custom Unattended Installation Packages

To create a custom unattended installation package, perform the following steps:

1. Copy the SYSMGMT\srvadmin\windows directory from the DVD to the system hard drive.

2. Create a batch script that executes the installation using the Windows Installer Engine (msiexec.exe).

NOTE: For Customized Unattended Installation, each required feature must be included as a command line

interface (CLI) parameter for it to be installed.

An example is msiexec.exe /i SysMgmt.msi ADDLOCAL= SA,IWS,BRCM /qb.

3. Place the batch script in the windows directory on the system hard drive.