Installing IAS silently on Windows

IAS provides a silent installation mode that is useful if you want to add the IAS installation to a general Endeca installation script, or install IAS on multiple machines using a scripted approach.

The silent installer is not interactive. You run the installation script and provide a text file as input. The text file contains response values to the installation prompts that would normally be answered by a user.

The file must contain a single row that specifies a response value for each IAS installation prompt. The response values vary depending on whether you are installing IAS into WebLogic Server or Jetty.

The order of prompts to install IAS into WebLogic Server is the following: 
Installation mode
Weblogic home
IAS domain name
IAS domain user
IAS domain password
IAS domain port
IAS host
For example, here are the contents of a text file with response values that correspond to the WebLogic Server prompts: 
1
C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3
ias
weblogic
weblogic123
8401
mymachinename.companydomain.com
The order of prompts to install IAS into Jetty is the following: 
Installation mode
Endeca IAS Service username 
Endeca IAS Service user password
IAS port
IAS shutdown port
IAS host name
For example, here are the contents of a text file with response values that correspond to the Jetty prompts: 
2
TEST\endeca
Password01
8401
8403
mymachinename.companydomain.com

To Install IAS silently on Windows machines:

  1. Start a text editor and create a .txt file with response values as described above.
  2. Save the .txt file to <install path>\IAS\<version>\bin.

    For example, save the file as silent.txt.

  3. Open a command prompt and change to the location of the installation script at <install path>\IAS\<version>\bin.
  4. Run the ias-setup.bat with the --silent flag, any optional arguments, and also specify the response file as an input.
    For example: 
    ias-setup.bat --silent < silent.txt

Following installation, the WebLogic domain for IAS is restarted, and on Jetty, the Endeca IAS Service starts automatically.