Bookshelf v7.5: Making Your Customized Installer Available to End Users

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Making Your Customized Installer Available to End Users

After you have tested your customizations and are satisfied with the client installer you have created, make your customized installer available to end users. You can distribute your customized installer to end users using one of the methods described in this section. The suitability of each method will depend on many factors, including available network bandwidth.

Siebel Anywhere

You can distribute and execute the customized Siebel client installer automatically as a Siebel Anywhere kit.

User access to a Siebel Anywhere kit requires an existing installation of the Siebel client on the user's machine. Therefore, you can use Siebel Anywhere for upgrades, but not for an initial deployment or new installations.

For more information on using Siebel Anywhere, see Siebel Anywhere Administration Guide.

CD-ROM, Local Area Network, or Other Method

For new installations or for upgrades, you can distribute the customized Siebel client installer to end users on CD-ROM or local area network (LAN). You can also distribute the customized Siebel client installer across a WAN or VPN, using a modem, by email, or by FTP.

The customized Siebel client installer may optionally be in the form of a self-extracting archive file. Packaging the installer as a self-extracting archive is generally best for distribution methods such as using a modem, email, or FTP.

To distribute a customized Siebel client installer on CD-ROM or network

CD-ROM: Place the self-extracting archive file (package_name.exe) or installer package directory onto a CD-ROM, then distribute the CD-ROM to your users.

Network: Place the self-extracting archive file (package_name.exe) or installer package directory in a network-accessible directory, such as on a LAN. Make sure that all users have access to this directory.

Notify your users how to access the installer package and initiate the installation process. Optionally, users may need to copy files to their local machine, such as if you packaged a self-extracting archive file.

The procedure users will follow varies according to how you distributed the package, how you created the package, and whether the package is a self-extracting archive file. Users can install a self-extracting archive package by running the archive file.