Installing Siebel CRM Using Silent Mode

The Siebel CRM installer supports an optional silent installation (also known as unattended installation) process, which is an installation that has been preconfigured to require no user input when the installation program runs. You can save a response file in a regular installer session. Then you can run the installer at the command line with certain flags appended to the installer command to execute the response file. Together, these tasks constitute installing in silent mode.

You can perform silent installations for better performance when installing software on multiple computers. Or, you might perform silent installations if user input during an installation is not allowed in your environment, as might be the case in some secure environments. A silent installation prepackages all of the required parameters so that you only have to execute a command to perform the installation.

The silent installation process for the current release of Siebel CRM is similar to that for Siebel CRM 21.1 and earlier. You can use silent mode to perform any installation task by the Siebel CRM installer or to add languages or components to an existing installation.

For silent installation, Siebel CRM includes the following files. You can use these files or save and modify your own response files.

enterpriseserver.resp
siebelserver.resp

When you create a new response file from running the Siebel CRM installer, the file is created as siebelinstall.rsp and is located in the SIEBEL_ROOT installation directory.

Caution: Silent installations provide no direct feedback or error notification. Therefore, you must test your settings in a development environment before system-wide deployment in a production environment. It is strongly recommended that you become thoroughly familiar with GUI installation and configuration for any Siebel CRM modules for which you intend to perform silent installation or configuration.

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