Users Guide

Installing Management Station Software 57
Mapping a Drive to Act as the Express Unattended Installation Package
To map a drive to act as the express unattended installation package, do the following:
1
Share an image of the Dell Systems Management Consoles CD with each remote system on which you
want to install Management Station.
You can accomplish this task by directly sharing the CD or by copying the entire CD 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 the following command after you have mapped the drive:
msiexec.exe /i Mapped Drive \windows\ManagementStation\MgmtSt.msi /qb
3 Configure your ISV distribution software to distribute and execute the script created in step 2.
4 Distribute this script to the target systems by using your ISV software distribution tools.
The
msiexec.exe /i Mapped Drive \windows\ManagementStation\MgmtSt.msi /qb command then
installs Management Station on each remote system.
Distributing the Entire CD as the Express Unattended Installation Package
To distribute the entire CD as the express unattended installation package, do the following:
1
Distribute the entire image of the Dell Systems Management Consoles CD to your target systems.
2 Configure your ISV distribution software to execute the msiexec.exe /i CD
Drive
\windows\ManagementStation\MgmtSt.msi /qb command from the Dell Systems Management
Consoles
CD image.
The msiexec.exe /i CD Drive\windows\ManagementStation\MgmtSt.msi /qb command executes from
the CD to install Management Station on each remote system.
Creating and Distributing Custom Unattended Installation Packages
To create a custom unattended installation package for distribution, simply copy the windows directory
from the CD onto the system’s hard drive.
Create a batch script that will execute the installation using the Windows Installer Engine (msiexec.exe).
For example:
msiexec.exe /i MgmtSt.msi ADDLOCAL=ITA,RACMS,ADS /qb
NOTE: For a customized unattended installation, each required feature must be included as a command line
interface (CLI) parameter for it to be installed.
Also, put the batch script in the windows directory on the system hard drive.
See “Customization Parameters” for additional details and available feature identification.