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Installing Siebel Enterprise Server Components and Siebel Web Server Extension in Unattended Mode

The installer programs for Siebel Enterprise Server and Siebel Web Server Extension support an optional unattended installation, which is an installation that has been preconfigured to require no user input when the installation program runs. You can save a response file in a regular installer session. Then you can run the installer at the command line with certain flags appended to the installer command to execute the response file. Together, these tasks constitute installing in unattended mode.

You can perform unattended installations for better performance when installing multiple servers. Or, you might perform unattended installations if user input during an installation is not allowed in your environment, as might be the case in some secure environments. An unattended installation prepackages all of the required parameters so that you only have to execute a command to perform the installation.

You can use unattended mode to perform a new installation or migration installation of the current release, Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.11 or version 8.2.2.4.

CAUTION:  Unattended installations provide no direct feedback or error notification. Therefore, you must test your settings in a development environment before system-wide deployment in a production environment. It is strongly recommended that you become thoroughly familiar with GUI installation for any Siebel modules for which you intend to perform unattended installation.

This topic contains the following information:

• Guidelines for Installing Servers in Unattended Mode
• Saving an Installation Response File
• Performing an Installation in Unattended Mode

Related Topics

Installing Siebel Enterprise Server

Installing the Siebel Web Server Extension

Verifying Installation for the Siebel Enterprise Server

Verifying Installation for the Siebel Web Server Extension

Requirements for Installing and Configuring Siebel Business Applications

Related Books

Version 8.1.1.x Siebel Maintenance Release Guide on My Oracle Support, 880452.1 (Article ID)

Version 8.2.2.x Siebel Maintenance Release Guide on My Oracle Support, 1441523.1 (Article ID)

Guidelines for Installing Servers in Unattended Mode

Review the following guidelines for installing Siebel Enterprise Server or Siebel Web Server Extension in unattended mode:

• Keep track of the response file results. Because the unattended installation session is controlled by the response file, you must keep careful track of the result each response file will yield when you perform an unattended installation. For example, depending on your selections when you generated a response file for Siebel Enterprise Server, the unattended installation performed with this file might install any or all of the Siebel Enterprise Server components: Siebel Gateway Name Server, Siebel Server, Siebel Database Configuration Utilities, or EAI Connectors.
• Create the response file on a computer similar to the target computer. When you run the installer as described in Saving an Installation Response File, installer validations are done as if you were performing a real installation. It is strongly recommended that you run the installer on a computer that has similar resources and configuration settings as the target computer on which the installation will be performed, as described in Performing an Installation in Unattended Mode. Unattended installations must meet all of the documented requirements, including those described in Requirements for Installing and Configuring Siebel Business Applications.
• Validate the installation. Validate each installation after it has completed, as described in Verifying Installation for the Siebel Enterprise Server and Verifying Installation for the Siebel Web Server Extension.

To install Siebel Enterprise Server components or Siebel Web Server Extension and specified Siebel language packs in unattended mode, perform the following tasks:

• Saving an Installation Response File
• Performing an Installation in Unattended Mode

Saving an Installation Response File

Perform the following steps to save an installation response file to be used in an unattended server installation.

To save an installation response file

1. Navigate to the Siebel image location where the installer is located.
2. Start the installer for Siebel Enterprise Server or Siebel Web Server Extension (SWSE).

   For information about starting these installers, see Installing Siebel Enterprise Server and Installing the Siebel Web Server Extension.

3. Provide input to the installer wizard, as in a normal GUI installation.
4. In the Summary screen, click Save Response File.
5. Specify the location of the response file, for example, C:\temp\sesinstall.rsp.

   A response file is generated that includes data that is derived from the input that you made during the installer session.

6. After the response file is saved, click Cancel.

   The installer session ends.

   In addition to saving the response file at the location that you specified at the command line, the installer creates the Siebel installation directory at the location that you specified in the installer session (for example, C:\temp\sesinstall.rsp). Although the Siebel module is not installed (because you clicked Cancel), this directory contains a subdirectory called inventory, which includes information about the product inventory.

   See the following procedure for performing a Siebel Enterprise Server or SWSE installation in unattended mode, using the response file that you just generated.

Performing an Installation in Unattended Mode

Perform the following steps to perform a unattended server installation.

To perform an unattended installation for Siebel Enterprise Server components or Siebel Web Server Extension, you save an installation response file, as described in Saving an Installation Response File, and run the installer command as shown in the following procedure.

To perform an installation in unattended mode

1. Navigate to the Siebel image location where the installer is located.
2. Place the response file that you previously generated in the correct Siebel image directory for the Siebel module (where the installer program is located), so that the file can be read when you start the installer.

   NOTE:  Always back up any existing valid response file before replacing it with a new file.

3. Open a DOS command window.
4. Run a command like the following to start the Siebel Enterprise Server or Siebel Web Server Extension installer:

   setup.bat -silent -responseFile path_to_installation_response_file

   In this command, path_to_installation_response_file is the full path and name of a response file to be executed (for example, C:\temp\sesinstall.rsp).

   This command runs the installer in unattended mode and specifies the location of the response file to be executed. No installer screens are displayed, and no further user input is prompted for after the installer starts.