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N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 Installation Guide

Non-Interactive Installation of a Remote Agent on Solaris OS, Red Hat Linux, and IBM AIX Systems

You can install the Remote Agent non-interactively by providing a parameters file to indicate your configuration selections. When you provide a parameters file to the installation program, the installation program does not prompt you for configuration selections during the installation. Instead, the installation program uses the configuration information provided in the parameters file.

ProcedureHow to Non-Interactively Install a Remote Agent on Solaris OS, Red Hat Linux, and IBM AIX Systems

Before You Begin

You must install a Master Server before you install a Remote Agent. The Master Server does not need to be installed on the machine on which you want to install the Remote Agent.

Steps

  1. On the machine where you want to install the Remote Agent, log in as the user that you want to own the Remote Agent.

    You can log in as root and install the software as the root user. If necessary, the installation program prompts you for information about which user should own the software.

  2. Insert the CD.

    • If you are installing the Remote Agent on a Solaris OS system, insert the N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1: Solaris CD.

    • If you are installing the Remote Agent on IBM AIX or Red Hat Linux, insert the N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1: IBM AIX, Redhat Linux, Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server CD.

  3. Change to the directory on the software CD where the installation script is located.


    % cd /script-directory

    script-directory is one of the following values:

    • solaris – on the N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1: Solaris CD

    • aix – on the N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1: IBM AIX, Redhat Linux, Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server CD

    • linux – on the N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1: IBM AIX, Redhat Linux, Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server CD

  4. Copy the installation script to the machine on which you want to install the Remote Agent.


    % cp cr_ra_opsystem_41.sh RA-machine/

    RA-machine is a directory on the machine on which you want to install the Remote Agent and opsystem is one of the following values:

    • solaris – installs the application on the Solaris OS

    • aix – installs the application on IBM AIX

    • linux – installs the application on Red Hat Linux

  5. Copy a parameters file into the same directory as the installation script.

    A sample parameters file is installed on the Master Server in the N1SPS4.1-MasterServer-home/server/bin directory when you install the Master Server. You can use the default values that are provided in this file or edit the file and add your custom values. The contents of the cr_ra_41_remote_params.sh sample parameters file are in Sample Remote Agent Parameters File for Solaris OS, Red Hat Linux, and IBM AIX.

    You can also create a new parameters file to use. The parameters file must be an executable file.

    N1SPS4.1-MasterServer-home is the directory where you installed the Master Server.

  6. Start the installation script.


    % cr_ra_opsystem_41.sh -paramfile parameters-file.sh

    opsystem is one of the following values:

    • solaris – installs the application on the Solaris OS

    • aix – installs the application on IBM AIX

    • linux – installs the application on Red Hat Linux

    parameters-file is the name of the parameters file that you want the installation program to use to obtain the configuration information. The parameters file must be an executable file.