Configuring Sterling File Gateway agent by using the silent response file

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You can use the silent response file to configure the Sterling File Gateway agent without responding to prompts when you run the configuration script. You can configure the agent that uses the silent response file on both Windows and Linux® systems. The silent response file contains the agent configuration parameters. You can edit the silent response file to modify the values of these parameters, and run the configuration script to create an instance and update the agent configuration values. This mode of configuration is called the silent mode.

About this task

The silent response file contains the agent configuration parameters with default values that are defined for some parameters. You can edit the silent response file to specify different values for the configuration parameters.

After you update the configuration values in the silent response file, you must run the configuration script to configure the agent with these updated values.

Procedure

To configure the Sterling File Gateway agent in the silent mode, complete the following steps:
  1. In a text editor, open the sterling_file_gatway_silent_config.txt file that is available at the following path:
    • Linuxinstall_dir/samples/sterling_file_gatway_silent_config.txt

      Example /opt/ibm/apm/agent/samples/sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt

    • Windowsinstall_dir\samples\sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt

      Example C:\IBM\APM\samples\sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt

  2. In the sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt file, specify values for all the mandatory parameters. You can also modify the default values of other parameters.
    For more information about the configuration parameters, see the following topics:
  3. Save and close the sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt file, and run the following command:
    • Linuxinstall_dir/bin/sterling_file_gateway-agent.sh config instance_name
      install_dir/samples/sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt

      Example /opt/ibm/apm/agent/bin/sterling_file_gateway-agent.sh config instance_name /opt/ibm/apm/agent/samples/sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt

    • Windowsinstall_dir/bin/sterling_file_gateway-agent.bat config instance_name
      install_dir/samples/sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt

      Example C:\IBM\APM\bin\sterling_file_gateway-agent.bat config instance_name
      C:\IBM\APM\samples\sterling_file_gateway_silent_config.txt

      Where instance_name is the name that you want to give to the instance and install_dir is the path where the agent is installed.

    Important: Ensure that you include the absolute path to the silent response file. Otherwise, the agent data is not shown in the dashboards.
  4. Run the following command to start the agent:
    • Linuxinstall_dir/bin/sterling_file_gateway-agent.sh start instance_name

      Example /opt/ibm/apm/agent/bin/sterling_file_gateway-agent.sh start instance_name

    • Windowsinstall_dir\bin\sterling_file_gateway-agent.bat start instance_name

      Example C:\IBM\APM\bin\sterling_file_gateway-agent.bat start instance_name