Novell IMANAGER - INSTALLATION V2.7 Installation Manual

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24 Novell iManager 2.7 Installation Guidenovdocx (en) 16 April 20105 When the iManager login page appears, enter your username, password, and tree.To access iManager, see “Accessing iManager” in the iManager 2.7.4 Administration Guide.If you upgraded from a previous version of iManager, see Chapter 2, “Upgrading iManager,” onpage 27.1.6 Silent Installation of iManager ServerA silent (non-interactive) installation doesn’t display a user interface or ask the user any questions.Instead, InstallAnywhere uses information from a properties file for this purpose.There are two silent installation options: Section 1.6.1, “Standard Silent Install,” on page 24 Section 1.6.2, “Customized Silent Install,” on page 241.6.1 Standard Silent InstallTo perform a standard silent install on Linux or Windows server using the default install values:1 Open a console window and go to the directory containing the iManager file you downloaded.2 On the command line, enter the following for Linux:./iManagerInstall<platform>.bin -i silentor enter the following for Windows:iManagerInstall.exe -i silent1.6.2 Customized Silent InstallTo perform a customized silent install for more control over which modules are installed:1 Create an installer.properties file in the same directory that contains the installerexecutable file.2 To perform a silent install using the installer.properties file, enter:./iManagerInstallplatform.bin -i silent -f pathto_properties_file3 In installer.properties, set and save the following values for: $PLUGIN_INSTALL MODE$: The property that controls whether plug-ins are installedfrom disk, network, both disk and network, or neither. If plug-ins are to be installed from disk, set this property to DISK. This is the defaultvalue. If plug-ins are to be installed from the network, set this property to NET. If plug-ins are to be installed from both disk and network, set this property to BOTH. If plugins are not to be installed, set this property to SKIP. $PLUGIN_DIR$: The property that defines an alternate path where plug-ins are locatedon disk.The default path is installer_root_directory/iManager/installs/platform path/pluginAll modules found in the plug-in directory are installed, except for subdirectories.