Silent Developer Studio Installation

How to:

After you are familiar with the Developer Studio installation, you can install in silent mode if you need to reinstall Developer Studio on several different machines. In a silent installation, dialog boxes do not appear to prompt you for parameters. Instead, you place the parameters in a text file that you specify when launching the silent installation. This is useful for sites where Developer Studio is installed on many developer machines.

To install in silent mode, you must first create a file containing your installation parameters.

Note: If you received the installation by using a download rather than a CD, you need to run the installation and choose the option to keep the unpacked files on your computer. The silent installation must be run with the files on the CD or the files that are unpacked from a downloaded installation.


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Procedure: How to Create the Installation Parameters File

Create a file in a text editor with the options you wish to use for your installation. The following table explains the options. Place each option on its own line.

Option

Value

Example

-license

Should be followed by the 9-digit Developer Studio license.

-license 000000000
-installdir

Should be followed by the drive letter or location where you wish to install the root ibi directory. Developer Studio components are installed into a root ibi directory no matter what you enter. If you enter:

C:\ibi\

components are installed in:

C:\ibi\ibi\
-installdir C:\
–noupgrade

Can optionally appear if Developer Studio is already installed and you do not want to upgrade it.

–noupgrade
-tomcat

Can optionally appear to install Apache Tomcat 7 with Developer Studio if it is not already installed.

Specify this location, where drive:\ibi\tomcat\ is the location in which Developer Studio is installed. This ensures that Tomcat is installed in a subfolder under C:\ibi\.

To specify a different location, you can add a path to this installation option (for example, C:\Program Files\tomcat\).

-tomcat drive:\ibi\tomcat\
-config

Can optionally appear to configure Apache Tomcat and Microsoft IIS. It should be followed by one of the following:

tc

Configures Tomcat standalone.

tc_iis

Configures Tomcat and IIS.

Tomcat or IIS must be installed to use this option. You can install Tomcat using the -tomcat option.

-config tc
-jdkupgrade

Can optionally appear to determine whether to install a Java SDK with Developer Studio. It should be followed by one of the following:

on

The Java SDK included with Developer Studio is installed unless the exact SDK release is already installed. This is the default if the option does not appear.

off

No Java SDK is installed with Developer Studio. If Java SDK 1.6 or higher is not already installed, the installation will not complete and an error message will be available in the log file.

-jdkupgrade on

An example of an entire file is the following:

-license 000000000
-installdir C:\
-noupgrade
-tomcat C:\ibi\tomcat
-config tc
-jdkupgrade on


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Procedure: How to Launch a Silent Installation
  1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory containing the setup.exe file for the Developer Studio installation.
  2. Enter the following:
    setup -opt drive:\PATH_TO\optionsFile.txt

    where:

    drive:\PATH_TO\optionsFile.txt

    Is the full path to the text file containing your installation options.

A log of the installation is provided for troubleshooting:

C:\users\user_id\

This log contains important information about the installation process. If the log indicates that the installation did not complete, adjust the options in the file you used to install Developer Studio. In some cases, an incorrect option setting can prevent the installation from completing.

If you do not choose to have the installation configure Tomcat, you can manually configure web and application servers, as explained in Configuring the Web Server or Application Server.


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