Silent installation
The Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive client installation program supports silent, unattended installations.
The C++ restributable packages perform a self-check operation to determine whether any updates are available on the web. If an update is available, the packages download and install the update. After the updates are installed, the C++ redistributable packages reboot the workstation to register and use the updated libraries. This reboot is forced by the C++ redistributable updates; you cannot prevent this reboot by using the RebootYesNo="No" REBOOT="Suppress" options.
- Windows 32-bit clients
- dir\ISSetupPrerequisites\{270b0954-35ca-4324-bbc6-ba5db9072dad} (contains MS 2010 x86 C++ Runtime - vcredist_x86.exe)
- dir\ISSetupPrerequisites\{270b0954-35ca-4324-bbc6-ba5db9072dae} (contains MS 2012 x86 C++ Runtime - vcredist_x86.exe)
- Windows 64-bit clients
- dir\ISSetupPrerequisites\{270b0954-35ca-4324-bbc6-ba5db9072dad} (contains MS 2010 x86 C++ Runtime - vcredist_x86.exe)
- dir\ISSetupPrerequisites\{270b0954-35ca-4324-bbc6-ba5db9072dae} (contains MS 2012 x86 C++ Runtime - vcredist_x86.exe)
- dir\ISSetupPrerequisites\{7f66a156-bc3b-479d-9703-65db354235cc} (contains MS 2010 x64 C++ Runtime - vcredist_x64.exe)
- dir\ISSetupPrerequisites\{7f66a156-bc3b-479d-9703-65db354235cd} (contains MS 2012 x64 C++ Runtime - vcredist_x64.exe)
To install a predefined (custom) dsm.opt file, use the following instructions before you begin the silent installation.
- Place the customized copy of the dsm.opt file in the ...\CONFIG directory located within the install image,
for example:
The file must be named dsm.opt.tsm_images\TSM_BA_Client\baclient\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\config
- The install program copies the predefined dsm.opt file to the ..\BACLIENT
directory when BOTH of the following conditions are met:
- dsm.opt does NOT exist in the ..\BACLIENT directory. The install program does not copy over an existing dsm.opt file.
- dsm.opt exists in the ..\CONFIG directory of the install image, as described earlier.
To perform a silent installation of the C++ redistributables or the backup-archive client, you must turn off User Account Control (UAC).
To turn UAC off, use either the Windows Control Panel or the MSCONFIG utility.
To turn UAC off in the Control Panel, select Never Notify.
, then selectTo turn UAC off using MSCONFIG, open a command prompt window and start MSCONFIG. Then select the Tools tab and Change User Account Control settings; then click Launch and turn UAC by selecting Never Notify.
After you install the C++ redistributables and the Windows client, remember to turn UAC on.
- Click .
- Right-click the Command Prompt icon to view the properties.
- Click Run as administrator.
- Click Continue in the permission window.
- Start the product installation using the command prompt window. On a 32-bit Windows system, install the 32-bit C++ redistributable packages. On a 64-bit Windows system, install the 64-bit C++ redistributable packages.
- Silently installing C++ redistributables for the 32-bit client
- Run this next command twice. Run it first from the directory where
the C++ 2010 vcredist_x86.exe file is stored. Then, run it again from
the directory where the C++ 2012 vcredist_x86.exe file is stored.
vcredist_x86.exe /q /c:"msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qn /l*v %temp%\vcredist_x86.log"
- Silently installing C++ redistributables for the 64-bit client
- Run this next command twice. Run it first from the directory where
the C++ 2010 vcredist_x86.exe file is stored. Then run it again from
the directory where the C++ 2012 vcredist_x86.exe file is stored.
vcredist_x86.exe /q /c:"msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qn /l*v %temp%\vcredist_x86.log"
- Run this next command twice. Run it first from the directory where
the C++ 2010 vcredist_x86.exe file is stored. Then run it again from
the directory where the C++ 2012 vcredist_x86.exe file is stored.
vcredist_x64.exe /q /c:"msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qn /l*v %temp%\vcredist_x64.log"
- Click .
- Right-click the Command Prompt icon to view the properties.
- Click Run as administrator.
- Click Continue in the permission window.
- Start the Windows backup-archive client silent installation using the command prompt window. On a 32-bit Windows system, install the 32-bit clients and API. On a 64-bit Windows system, install the 64-bit clients and API.
- Silent client installation on Windows 32-bit systems
When you place a customized version of the msiexec command (which invokes the Microsoft Software Installer) in a script or batch file, you can perform installations on multiple Windows systems. The following is a sample command to install the backup-archive command-line client, client GUI, web client, API, and Administrative command-line client. You might need to customize this example to run correctly on your system. While the command is physically spread across multiple lines on this page, enter it on a single command line.
msiexec /i "Z:\tsm_images\TSM_BA_Client\IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client.msi" RebootYesNo="No" REBOOT="Suppress" ALLUSERS=1 INSTALLDIR="c:\program files\tivoli\tsm" ADDLOCAL="BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,ApiRuntime, AdministrativeCmd" TRANSFORMS=1033.mst /qn /l*v "c:\log.txt"
- Silent client installation on Windows 64 bit systems
This example is essentially the same as the 32-bit example. However, it names the 64 bit API feature on the ADDLOCAL= parameter.
msiexec /i "Z:\tsm_images\TSM_BA_Client\IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client.msi" RebootYesNo="No" REBOOT="Suppress" ALLUSERS=1 INSTALLDIR="c:\program files\tivoli\tsm" ADDLOCAL="BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime, AdministrativeCmd" TRANSFORMS=1033.mst /qn /l*v "c:\log.txt"
- msiexec
- Invokes the Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) program.
- /i
- Installs the specified source package (replace with /x to uninstall the package).
- "Z:\tsm_images\TSM_BA_Client\IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client.msi"
- This specifies the complete path to the source package. The Z drive is shown in this example. Specify the drive letter for the disk drive, in your configuration, that contains the installation image.
- RebootYesNo="No" REBOOT="Suppress"
- Under certain conditions, a system reboot might be necessary for the installation to complete successfully. This option causes the installation program to not reboot the system if circumstances would otherwise cause the reboot to occur. While this option is convenient, use it with caution because suppressing the reboot might cause the program to behave in an unpredictable manner. The most common reason that a reboot would be required is if the installation was an upgrade to an existing Tivoli Storage Manager client, and the installation was performed while the client programs were running. Therefore, shut down all Tivoli Storage Manager client programs and services before performing the installation.
- ALLUSERS=1
- Specifies that the package is for all users. This option is required.
- INSTALLDIR="c:\program files\tivoli\tsm"
- Specifies the destination path. If you have already installed this product or a previous version of this product on your workstation, use the current installation directory as the destination path for this package.
- For 32-bit client installations: ADDLOCAL="BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,ApiRuntime"
- For 64-bit client installations: ADDLOCAL="BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime"
- Specifies the features to install. Specify all the components
on a single line within quotation marks, separated by commas, with
no spaces before or after the commas. The installable client features
are shown in the following table:
Windows 32 bit client features Windows 64 bit client features Feature description BackupArchiveGUI BackupArchiveGUI Graphical user interface BackupArchiveWeb BackupArchiveWeb Backup-archive web client ApiRuntime Api32Runtime
Api64RuntimeAPI Runtimes ApiSdk ApiSdk API SDK AdministrativeCmd AdministrativeCmd Administrative Command Line VMwareBackupTools VMwareBackupTools VMware vStorage API runtime files - TRANSFORMS=1033.mst
- Specifies which language transform to use. The following language
transforms are available:
Transform Language 1028.mst CHT Traditional Chinese 1029.mst CSY Czech 1031.mst DEU German 1033.mst ENG English 1034.mst ESP Spanish 1036.mst FRA French 1038.mst HUN Hungarian 1040.mst ITA Italian 1041.mst JPN Japanese 1042.mst KOR Korean 1045.mst PLK Polish 1046.mst PTB Portuguese 1049.mst RUS Russian 2052.mst CHS Simplified Chinese - /qn
- Specifies to perform the installation silently.
- /l*v "c:\log.txt"
- Specifies verbose logging and the name and location of the log file.
The installation process creates a Tivoli Storage Manager folder in the programs folder of the Windows Start menu. You can start Tivoli Storage Manager by clicking one of the icons in this folder.