3.5. «Quiet» installation, installation on remote machines

«Quiet» installation is intended for remote installation of the program to a large number of computers in the network. In this case the setup program will not produce any dialogs.

To perform this installation you have to create a textual file of the ASCII format under the name of «agent_setup.ini» and put it near the setup program of «agent_setup.exe». The «agent_setup.ini» file consists of several sections where parameters names and their corresponding values are located. A section has the following view:

[Name_section]

Name_parameter_1=value_parameter _1

Name_parameter_2=value_parameter _2

At the beginning of the section there is its name in square brackets. Then there are lines with parameter values. To the left of the equality sign – name of next parameter, on the right - its value.

Inside, the «agent_setup.ini» file must comprise the following lines:

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[Install]

Folder=<folder for the program installation>

StartMenu=<0 | 1>

StartMenuFolder=<start menu folder>

Desktop=<0 | 1>

QuickLaunch=<0 | 1>

Run=<0 | 1>

[General]

Administration=<0 | 1>

ServerHost=<name or ip-address of sever >

ServerPort=<tcp-port of server>

[Interface]

HideIndicator=<0 | 1>

RunAs=<0 |1>

Language=<english | german | japanese | russian>

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"Folder" - folder for program installation

"StartMenu" =0 - don't create start menu folder; =1 - create menu folder

"StartMenuFolder" - start menu folder name

"Desktop"  =0 - don't create desktop shortcut;  =1 -  create desktop shortcut

"QuickLaunch"  =0 don't create quick launch shortcut; = 1 - create quick launch shortcut

"Run" - run the program after installation (=0 - don't run; =1 - run)

"Administration" - Set «0», if you want to configure working hours and priority yourself, «1», if you want working hours and priority to be administrated from the server

"ServerHost" - the server name or ip-address to which the Agent will be connected

"ServerPort" - the server port to which the Agent will be connected

"HideIndicator" - responsible for the presence of the Agent icon in the systems tree (0 –no, 1 –yes)

"RunAs" =0 - run the program when a user logs in; =1 - run the program at Windows start-up

"Language" - language of the program interface

Then, for instance, having administration rights, you will be able to:

- run the «Server» service if it has not been started;

- provide a general access to the folder with the «agent_setup.exe» and «agent_setup.ini» files;

- edit the task list of the AT service;

- start the AT service.

This way you can remotely install the Agent to the network machines.