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Sun Management Center 4.0 Installation and Configuration Guide

es-inst Options

The syntax for the es-inst command is:

es-inst [-S dir][-T dir][-R dir][-C file][-A file][avh]

The following table describes the es-inst parameters.

Table B–2 es-inst Options

Option 

Modifying Options 

Description 

-A

filename

Perform an automated installation using the specified configuration file filename. This option is ignored if —C is also used.

-C

filename

Specify a file in which to store the configuration details entered during installation and setup. The file can be used for subsequent automated installation. 

-R

/path/remote-machine

Install Sun Management Center on a remote machine that is network file system read/write accessible from the root login account on the local machine.

See Installing on a Remote Machine.

-S

directory

Specify the source directory. 

-T

directory

Specify the target directory. 

-a

 

Perform an agent-only product installation. See To Install or Update Agents From an Agent-Update Image Using agent-update.bin.

-h

 

List the es-inst options.

-v

 

Perform an installation using verbose full log mode. 

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

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

Note –

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