Installation guide

Unattended Installations on Windows
Chapter 2: Install a Web Agent on a Windows System 35
Run an Unattended Installation on Windows
You should have completed an initial Web Agent installation and, if necessary,
modified the ca-wa-installer.properties file. Now, you can use the file to run
subsequent Web Agent installations.
To run an unattended Web Agent installation
1. From a system where the Web Agent is already installed, copy the following
files to a local directory:
a. ca-wa-version-win32.exe (Agent executable) from where it resides on
your system.
b. ca-wa-installer.properties file from
web_agent_home\install_config_info
2. Open a command window and navigate to the directory where you copied
the files.
Important! If you are running a SiteMinder utility or executable on
Windows Server 2008, be sure to open the command–line window with
Administrator permissions, even if you are logged into the system as an
Administrator. For more information, see the release notes for your
SiteMinder component.
3. Run the installation executable with the -f and - i silent options, as shown in
the following example:
agent_executable -f properties_file -i silent
Assuming that you run the installation from the directory where the
executable and properties file are located, the command would be:
ca-wa-<version>-win32.exe -f ca-wa-installer.properties -i silent
Note: If you are not at the directory where these files reside, you must
specify the full path to each file. If there are spaces in the directory paths,
enclose the entire path between quotation marks.
When the installation is complete, you return to the command prompt.
4. Check to see if the installation completed successfully by looking in the
CA_SiteMinder_Web_Agent _version_InstallLog.log file, located in the
web_agent_home\install_config_info directory. This log file contains the
results of the installation.
5. Register the trusted host and configure the Web Agent.
Note: If you are configuring an Agent on an IIS 6.0 server, do not configure
the Agent immediately after installation. There are some setup procedures
you need to perform before configuring the Agent.