Installing Desktop Agents In Batch Mode; Batch Installation; Setting Up The Dmisetup.ini Or Setup.ini Configuration File; The Installation Section [Setupinstall] - HP Vectra E-Vectra Deployment Manual

10 installing Desktop Agents in Batch Mode

If you want to install Toptools for Desktops Agent on client machines in batch mode, without user
intervention, unzip the agent files but do not proceed to running setup.exe. Instead, use the following
procedure.

10.1 Batch Installation

There are several options for installaing Desktop Agents without user intervention. The Command-line
options are for TTDD50<nn>.exe (DMI) and SETUP.INI (WMI). The WMI agent does not have some of
the options in the DMISETUP.INI file.
-s : Extract the files silently. Do not ask for a temporary installation directory. Note that this does not
provide a totally non-interactive installation. To obtain it, combine this option with "-a" and "Inifile=",
described below.
-a : Used to pass the rest of the command line to the Setup program once the package has been
expanded.
Command-line options to the Setup program (these may be passed from TTDD50<nn>.exe to Setup.exe
using the -a option described above):
-Abort : Does nothing. Useful when just expanding the files without performing an installation.
Inifile=<full path to the INI file enclosed in double quotes> : This option allows you to specify the
name and location of the .INI file used to specify setup options. The following options are possible:
• specify a full qualified path, for example: setup Inifile="C:\mySetup\silentsetup.ini"
• specify only the name of the .INI file, in which case the file is searched in the same directory as
the setup program. Example: setup Inifile="my Silent Setup.ini"
You can supply an initialization file with custom installation parameters (such as whether installation
should be interactive or batch). By default, the file names are DMISETUP.INI or SETUP.INI and use the
syntax described below. You can use the command-line parameter "Inifile=" described above to use
another file name.
A standard initialization file called SILENT.INI in the subdirectory "disk1" is created when you expand the
files. You can use SILENT.INI for a standard unattended installation. To do so on your PC, issue a
command such as: TTDD50<nn>.exe -s -a Inifile="silent.ini" where nn is the build number of the
Toptools Agent.

10.2 Setting up the DMISETUP.INI or SETUP.INI Configuration File

Use the DMISETUP.INI or SETUP.INI configuration file to set up the batch installation. You can find these
files in the same subdirectory as the executable program, along with a readme file with the latest
information on the parameters. This file has three sections:
•
[SetupInstall] to set the installation parameters.
•
[Action] to describe the actions allowed during the batch installation setup.
•
[GeneralInfo] contains default values used by the batch installation process for
some DMI attributes.
10.2.1

The Installation Section [SetupInstall]

This section contains 3 items:
InteractiveInstall: The possible values you can set for this item are 1 or 0. If you set this item to 0, the
Toptools SETUP.EXE program runs in batch mode (without user intervention). The batch process will
copy all the installation files into a single directory structure. If you don't use batch mode setup, but run
the Toptools SETUP.EXE program manually, the parameters from section [Action] and section
[GeneralInfo] will not be used. Example setting for this item: InteractiveInstall=1.
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