Install Guide

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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 software with each remote system on which you
want to install Server Administrator.
You can accomplish this task by directly sharing the software or by copying the entire ISO image 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\<64bit MSI path on the DVD>/qn 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\<64bit MSI path on the
DVD>/qn 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 srvadmin\windows\SystemsManagementx64 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 SysMgmtx64.msi ADDLOCAL= SA,IWS,BRCM /qn.
3. Place the batch script in the windows directory on the system hard drive.
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Customization Parameters
Distributing Custom Unattended Installation Packages
For distributing custom unattended installation packages:
1. Configure the ISV distribution software to execute the batch script once the installation package is distributed.
2. Use the ISV distribution software to distribute the custom unattended installation package to the remote systems. The batch
script installs Server Administrator along with specified features on each remote system.
The batch script installs Server Administrator along with specified features on each remote system.
3. Reboot each remote system to enable Server Administrator.
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Installing Managed System Software On Microsoft Windows Operating Systems