About the Silent Installation and Uninstallation of a J2EE Agent

A silent installation or uninstallation refers to installing or uninstalling a program by implementing a script. The script is part of a state file. The script provides all the answers that you would normally supply to the installation or uninstallation program interactively. Running the script saves time and is useful when you want to install or uninstall multiple instances of Policy Agent using the same parameters in each instance.

Silent installation is a simple two-step process of generating a state file and then using that state file. To generate a state file, you record the installation or uninstallation process, entering all the required information that you would enter during a standard installation or uninstallation. Then you run the installation or uninstallation program with the state file as the input source.