Installation guide

Preparing Silent Installation Files
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Creating Silent Installation Files
The best way to create a file for use with silent installation is to use the setup
program to interactively create a server instance of the type that you want to
duplicate.
To do this, run
setup with the -k flag.The setup program will create the following
file:
/usr/netscape/servers/setup/install.inf
This file contains all the directives that you would use with silent installation to
create the server instance. You can then use this file to create other server instances
of that type.
You will have to make some modifications to this file before you use it. Specifically,
ensure that you:
•Setthe
FullMachineName directive to a value that is appropriate for the
machine on which Directory Server will be installed, if it’s not to be the local
machine. In most circumstances, it is best not to use this directive because
FullMachineName will then defaultto thelocal host name.However, if you use
custom installation to generate your initial server instance, then this directive
will appear in the
install.inf file.
•Setthe
ServerIpAddress directive appropriate for the local machine. The
same usage rules apply for
ServerIpAddress as for FullMachineName.
Specifically, try to not include
ServerIpAddress in your install.inf file
unless you absolutely have to (as may be necessary for multi-homed systems).
• Verify the installation path on the
ServerRoot directive. Also, ensure that the
name of the file-system directory where you install files d oes not contain any
space characters.
• If you are installing more than one Directory Server on the same host, ma ke
sure the
ServerIdentifier directive contains a unique value for each s erver
instance.
•The
SuiteSpotUserID and SuitespotGroup directives determine what user
and group a server will run under when installed o n a UNIX sy stem.
NOTE
Any distinguished names (DNs) in the files must be in the UTF-8 character
set encoding.