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VMware View Installation Guide
Silent Installation Properties for a Security Server
You can include specific properties when you silently install a security server from the command line. You
must use a
PROPERTY = value
values.
Table 5-4. MSI Properties for Silently Installing a Security Server
MSI Property
INSTALLDIR
VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE_
TYPE
VDM_SERVER_NAME
VDM_SERVER_SS_EXTURL
VDM_SERVER_SS_PWD
FWCHOICE
Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
To install View components silently, you must use Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) command-line options
and properties. The View component installers are MSI programs and use standard MSI features. You can also
use MSI command-line options to uninstall View components silently.
For details about MSI, see the Microsoft Web site. For MSI command-line options, see the Microsoft Developer
Network (MSDN) Library Web site and search for MSI command-line options. To see MSI command-line usage,
you can open a command prompt on the View component computer and type
To run a View component installer silently, you begin by disabling the bootstrap program that extracts the
installer into a temporary directory and starts an interactive installation.
Table 5-5 shows the command-line options that control the installer's bootstrap program.
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format so that Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) can interpret the properties and
Description
The path and folder in which the View Connection Server software is
installed.
For example: INSTALLDIR=""D:\abc\my folder""
The sets of two double quotes that enclose the path permit the MSI installer
to ignore the space in the path.
This MSI property is optional.
The type of View Connection Server installation:
1. Standard installation
n
2. Replica installation
n
3. Security server installation
n
4. View Transfer Server installation
n
To install a security server, define VDM_SERVER_INSTANCE_TYPE=3
This MSI property is optional for a standard installation. It is required for
all other types of installation.
The host name or IP address of the existing View Connection Server
instance to pair with the security server.
For example: VDM_SERVER_NAME=cs1.companydomain.com
This MSI property is required.
The external URL of the security server. The URL must contain the
protocol, externally resolvable security server name, and port number
For example:
VDM_SERVER_SS_EXTURL=https://ss1.companydomain.com:443
This MSI property is required.
The security server pairing password.
For example: VDM_SERVER_SS_PWD=secret
This MSI property is required.
The MSI property that determines whether to configure a firewall for the
View Connection Server instance.
A value of 1 sets a firewall. A value of 2 does not set a firewall.
For example: FWCHOICE=1
This MSI property is optional.
Default Value
%ProgramFiles
%\VMware\VMware
View\Server
1
None
None
None
1
.
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