Deployment Guide

The unattended installation package is distributed to the remote systems using a software distribution

tool from an independent software vendor (ISV). When the package is distributed, the installation script

executes to install the software.

Creating And Distributing The Typical Unattended Installation Package

The Typical Setup unattended installation option uses the Systems Management Tools and

Documentation DVD as the unattended installation package. The msiexec.exe /i <SysMgmt or

SysMgmtx64>.msi /qb command accesses the DVD to accept the software license agreement and

installs all the required Server Administrator features on selected remote systems. These features are

installed on the remote systems based on the system's hardware configuration.

NOTE: After an unattended installation is complete, to use the command line interface (CLI) feature

of Server Administrator, you must open a new console window and execute the CLI commands

from there. Executing CLI commands from the same console window in which Server Administrator

was installed does not work.

You can make the DVD image available to the remote system by either distributing the entire contents of

the media, or by mapping a drive from the target system to the location of the DVD image.

Mapping A Drive To Act As The Typical Unattended Installation Package

1. Share an image of the 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\<32–bit or 64–bit MSI path

on the DVD>/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 Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD to the target

systems.

2. Configure the ISV distribution software to execute the msiexec.exe /i DVD Drive\<32–bit or

64–bit MSI path on the DVD>/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.