Hands-Free Installation

Sun Management Center 4.0 supports hands-free, also known as Boom, installation. In a hands-free installation, the installer does not prompt you for any inputs while installing the product. You can install both the server and agent components using the es-inst -B command. Two response files, default-agent-install.ascii and default-server-install.ascii, contain the default parameter values that are required for a hands-free installation. The default-agent-install.ascii file has default values for an agent installation and the default-server-install.ascii file has default values for a server installation.

Assuming that you are installing Sun Management Center from a media image directory on your network, the response files are located in the /net/machine/disk1/sbin directory. You can make a copy of the response files and modify the parameter values, if required. To run the hands-free installation, do the following:

1. Log in as root.

2. Run the command

   es-inst -B filename

where

• -B installs the product with the default parameter values

• filename is the name of the response file

For example, es-inst -B default-agent-install.ascii

Hands-free installation is supported only on the Solaris platform.