Silent Install for Veritas DLO

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by John_NTS91)

I just joined a new company with an approximate user base of 250 plus. I would like to pitch the idea of having Big Fix push out a silent install of Veritas-DLO to the entire user community. I have never worked with Big fix, and was wondering if you could provide an outline of steps as to what the process would be to get this done?

Thanks, John

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(imported comment written by mynameisbear91)

John NTS

I just joined a new company with an approximate user base of 250 plus. I would like to pitch the idea of having Big Fix push out a silent install of Veritas-DLO to the entire user community. I have never worked with Big fix, and was wondering if you could provide an outline of steps as to what the process would be to get this done?

Thanks, John

This is probably an incomplete answer because 1. I don’t remember whether the “Windows Software Distribution Wizard” requires the purchase of a separate site or not and 2. I don’t know whether the DLO agent has a silent install option, but basically:

  1. Put the DLO agent installer folder somewhere on your system

  2. Go to the Wizards menu item in BES Console

  3. Select “Windows Software Distribution Wizard” from the menu

  4. Follow the instructions, and when it asks you to specify the name of the setup file, make sure you specify the command-line parameters to make it install silently.

FYI I found some stuff that might help you:

For a silent installation, edit CmdLine in the SETUP.INI file as follows:   Original: CmdLine=/qf DEFAULTMEDIASERVER=”Desktop3” LAUNCHCLIENT=”1” /l*v“%TEMP%\DLOAgentInstall.log”   Modified: CmdLine=/qn DEFAULTMEDIASERVER=”Desktop3” LAUNCHCLIENT=”1” /l*v“%TEMP%\DLOAgentInstall.log”   --------------   For a completely silent install, you will need to run “setup.exe /s” after modifying the SETUP.INI file.
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(imported comment written by John_NTS91)

is there a command line to do a silent auto start VERITAS DLO client after the silent install?

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Does it run as a service?

Comment #8 of this thread has an action script you can use to silently start/stop a service:

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=377

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(imported comment written by John_NTS91)

it doesn’t run as a service, it installs as an application that has to be started (or the computer has to be rebooted). I was wanting to complete a silent install, then have Veritas DLO auto-start in the background.

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Well it looks like you can use the above information to install silently.

After the install you can launch the program using run or runhidden. My guess is that the installer puts a string in “HKLM\Software\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\Run”. You can do something like this:

run {value “KeyName” of key “HKLM\Software\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\Run” of registry}

There might be a reason you need to restart before the program will function, so instead of launching the program you might just add ‘action requires restart’ to the end of the action script. That will put the machine into a pending restart state and you can then restart according to your company’s policies.