D.2 Installation Program Options

The following table defines all possible command line options used with the Sentinel Agent Manager installation program:

Option Name

Description

Components

CONFIGGROUP_NAME

Specifies the name of the configuration group you created when you installed your database server.

Central computer

CONFIGGROUP_ID

Specifies the globally unique identifier (GUID) of the configuration group you created when you installed your database server.

You can obtain your configuration group's GUID by running the following query in SQL Management Studio on your database server:

Configurationselectbydatanameandcategory config, id

Execute the query on the AgentManager database. Use the DataValue column value returned by the query as the CONFIGGROUP_ID value.

Central computer

CONFIGGROUP_PASSWORD

Specifies the password for the configuration group you created when you installed your database server.

Central computer

IS_SQLSERVER_SERVER

Specifies the name of your database server computer.

Central computer

INSTALLDIR

Specifies the folder where you want to install Sentinel Agent Manager. If the specified folder does not exist, the installation program creates a folder with the specified path and name.

Note: You cannot specify C:\Program Files\NetIQ\ as your installation folder. Sentinel Agent Manager uses this path by default for specific Sentinel Agent Manager components.

Central computer

INSTALL_TYPE

Specifies the type of Sentinel Agent Manager installation you want to perform, whether a new installation or an upgrade of existing Sentinel Agent Manager components. Possible values are install or upgrade.

Note: You need to specify the installation type only if you want to upgrade an existing Sentinel Agent Manager installation. The default value of this property is install unless you specify upgrade.

All components

ADDLOCAL

Specifies the Sentinel Agent Manager components you want to install, in a comma-separated list.

The following items are possible values for this option:

  • CentralComputer

  • Agent

  • CommonFiles_CC_UI

  • CommonFiles_UI

  • DevConsole

Notes: If you want to install user interface components, you must include both CommonFiles_CC_UI and CommonFiles_UI in the list of options.

If you want to upgrade Sentinel Agent Manager, you must specify all components currently installed in the ADDLOCAL list.

Central computer, user interfaces, log archive server

 

If you want to install Sentinel Agent Manager central computer components, specify the following options: Agent,CentralComputer,CommonFiles_CC_UI

Central computer

IS_NET_API_LOGON_USERNAME

Specifies the name of the service account you used when you installed your database server, using the format Domain\User.

Central computer

IS_NET_API_LOGON_PASSWORD

Specifies the password for the service account you used when you installed your database server.

Central computer

IS_SILENT="true"

Specifies that unmanaged agents must be installed or upgraded silently. You use this option along with the /quiet option.

Unmanaged agents

The following command is an example of the command line text you would need to input in order to install a Sentinel Agent Manager central computer silently:

msiexec /i Setup.msi /quiet /l*v test.txt CONFIGGROUP_NAME="test" CONFIGGROUP_ID="4F0180D9-2D47-4BA7-924F-4599B9C1447A" CONFIGGROUP_PASSWORD="testtest" IS_SQLSERVER_SERVER="sqlserver002" INSTALLDIR="C:\silentinstall\" ADDLOCAL="Agent,CommonFiles_CC_UI,CentralComputer" IS_NET_API_LOGON_USERNAME="domainA\bobr" IS_NET_API_LOGON_PASSWORD="*******"