Guidelines for Installing Servers in Silent Mode

Review the following guidelines for installing Siebel Enterprise Server or Siebel Application Interface in silent mode. This topic is part of Installing Siebel CRM Using Silent Mode.

Keep track of the response file results. Because the silent installation session is controlled by the response file, you must keep careful track of the result each response file will yield when you perform a silent installation.
For example, depending on your selections when you generated a response file for Siebel Enterprise Server, the silent installation performed with this file might install one or more of the following Siebel CRM server modules (subject to restrictions on installing modules together): Siebel Gateway, Siebel Server, Siebel Database Configuration Utilities, EAI Connector, or Siebel Application Interface.
Create the response file on a computer similar to the target computer. When you run the installer as described in Saving an Installation Response File, installer validations are done as if you were performing a real installation. It is strongly recommended that you run the installer on a computer that has similar resources and configuration settings as the target computer on which the installation will be performed, as described in Performing an Installation in Silent Mode. Silent installations must meet all of the documented requirements, including those described in About Installation Tasks for Siebel CRM and in Requirements for Installing and Configuring Siebel CRM.
Observe requirements for password encryption. Password encryption is enabled by default for Siebel CRM. Therefore, any passwords you specify in the response file must have been encrypted using the EncryptString.jar utility, which is available in the following locations:
- In the Siebel installation image, EncryptString.jar is located in the Disk1\stage\ext\jlib directory.
- In the installed Siebel CRM software, EncryptString.jar is located in the config\installer directory.
To run the EncryptString.jar utility, use a command like the following:
```
Java.exe -jar <full_path_to_EncryptString.jar> <password to be encrypted>
```
Validate the installation. Validate each installation after it has completed, as described in Verifying Installation for Siebel CRM.

To install Siebel CRM server modules and the specified Siebel languages using silent mode, perform the following tasks: