Installation guide

58 ZENworks 11 Server Installation Guide
When you use the -s argument by itself, the installation program prompts you for a path for the
response file. The default filename is
silentinstall.properties , which you can rename later
(see Step 4g).
4 Add the Management Zone and external database passwords to your custom response file.
Because the external database password that you enter during custom response file creation is
not saved in the response file, you must add the database and the Management Zone
passwords in each copy of the response file in order for it to be correctly provided during an
unattended installation.
Optionally, you can create an environment variable to pass the password into the unattended
installation. Instructions for this are contained in the response file where the password
information is stored.
While you are editing the response file, you can make any other changes necessary to
customize it for your unattended installation. The response file contains instructions for its
various sections.
To add the external database and Management Zone passwords into the response file:
4a Open the response file in a text editor.
Your custom response file is located where you specified in Step 3.
If you are editing the default response file, it is located at
DVD_drive:\Disk1\InstData\silentinstall.properties .
4b Search for ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD= .
4c Replace $lax.nl.env.ADMIN_PASSWORD$ with the actual password.
For example, if the password is
novell , then the entry will be as follows:
ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD=novell
4d (Conditional) If you are using an external database, then search for the line,
DATABASE_ADMIN_PASSWORD= , and replace $lax.nl.env.ADMIN_PASSWORD$ with the actual
password.
4e (Conditional) If you are using an external database, then search for the line,
DATABASE_ACCESS_PASSWORD= , and replace $lax.nl.env.ADMIN_PASSWORD$ with the
actual password.
4f Save the file and exit the editor.
4g Make as many differently named copies as you need for your various installation scenarios,
modify each copy as necessary, then copy each one to the server where it will be used.
If you want to add another Primary Server to the existing Management Zone, you must
provide the following information in the response file:
PRIMARY_SERVER_ADDRESS=$Primary_Server_IPaddress$
PRIMARY_SERVER_PORT=$Primary_Server_port$
PRIMARY_SERVER_CERT=-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIID9DCCLotsOfEncryptedCharactersSja+bY05Y=-----END CERTIFICATE-----
where
PRIMARY_SERVER_ADDRESS is the IP address or DNS name of the parent Primary
Server if the secondary server is being installed to an existing Management Zone.