Installing Systems Insight Manager from the command line with an .xml file.
The option to perform a Silent install is available through a command line installation. A silent install occurs when setup.exe is launched with the command line options for a Silent install. Execute:
setup.exe —s path to silent file —svcpw service password —dbpw database
password
A silent.xml file resides in the same directory as setup.exe. This text file can be edited with any text editor. If installing Systems Insight Manager from the DVD, copy the silent .xml to a location where the file can be edited. If installing Systems Insight Manager from the Web, then after extracting the installation program, edit the silent.xml file and launch the setup in Silent mode.
All errors, warnings, or information messages are logged in the Systems Insight Manager.log. The installation status of Systems Insight Manager and installed components appear in the
silentstatus.xmlfile. These files are created in the root of the system drive. The silent.xml file contains the parameters below for the installation process. Database information: Set <installSQLEXPR>
TRUE | FALSE
The following tag is used to install or not install SQL Express during the silent installation: TRUE- used to install SQL Express
FALSE - used to not install SQL Express
For example: <installSQLEXPR>false</installSQLEXPR>
<dbUserName>
Provide a valid user account which is a member of the local admins group on the database server.
<dbDomain>
Provide the domain for the user account.
<dbHost>
This can be the local server or a remote system running SQL server or SQL Express. Provide the host name or IP address of the database server.
<dbInstance>
Provide a valid existing instance name already running on the database server or specify a new instance name if you want to install SQL Express on the local server.
<dbName>
use the default 'master'.
<dbPort>
Use default 1433 or provide a valid port. Systems Insight Manager service Information: TRUE | FALSE
The following flag is used to configure an Oracle database during the silent installation: dbOracle
TRUE- to use an Oracle database
FALSE - not to use an Oracle database
NOTE: When dbOracle is set to TRUE, installSQLEXPR should be set to false. When installSQLEXPR is set to TRUE, dbOracle should be set to false.
The dbDomain and dbInstance parameters should not be set (left blank).
dbOracleJARFile - must be specified when using an Oracle database. This is used to provide the location of the JDBC driver to be used to connect to the Oracle database.
For example, <dbOracleJARfile>c:\ojdbc14.jar</dbOracleJARfile>
<svcuserName>
Provide a valid local or domain user account which is a member of the local admins group.
<svcDomain>
Provide the domain for the user account. Installation Location:
<baseInstallLocation>
and
<hpsimInstallLocation>
define the installation location of Systems Insight Manager and the partner components. The base installation location is the main directory that Systems Insight Manager and the partner components are installed to. OpenSSH, Insight Control virtual machine management is installed in the
<baseInstallLocation>
specified in silent.xml. Systems Insight Manager will be installed in
<hpsimInstallLocation>
specified in silent.xml. If the silent install finds a previous Systems Insight Manager installation on the target system, that location will be used instead of %system root drive%\hp\
hpsmh.WMI Mapperat %system root drive%\program Files\The open group\WMI Mapper.
<allowReboot>
Set this to true or false as desired. A server reboot is recommended after installing Systems Insight Manager and partner components. The silent.xml lists all the components with their product IDs for install. Set the
<install>
value to true to install.
NOTE: Systems Insight Manager and HP System Management Homepage are always installed even if their
<install>is set to false.
Set the port value of the https port for the WMI Mapper component to use. The default value for this port is 5989. You can configure an alternate port in WBEM by editing the wbemportlist.xml file. For more information about editing the wbemportlist.xml file, seeEditing the
wbemportlist.xml file
IMPORTANT: For a Silent install, the service or database user name and/or domain name containing special characters, such as: &, <, >, ', " must be escaped appropriately as below in the silent.xml file:
& & < < > > ' ' " "
For example, for a user name such as user&1 , the entry in silent.xml would be user&1. For a silent install embedded quote ( " ) character in service or database password is not supported. See“Next steps” (page 32) for more information.
Editing the wbemportlist.xml file
HP SIM edits the wbemportlist.xml file to support an alternate port in WBEM. You must perform the following steps to edit the wbemportlist.xml file.
1. Locate the wbemportlist.xml file in the following location:
C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\Config\Identification 2. Add the following lines to the wbemportlist.xml file.
</port>
<port id>="<PORT_NUMBER>" protocol = "https"> <cimnamespacelist>
<cimnamespace name="root/cimv2"/> </cimnamespacelist>
</port>
3. Restart the HP SIM service.
4. In Windows Services API , right-click HP Systems Insight Manager service, and then select
restartfrom the drop down menu.