HCL Workload Automation, Version 9.4

Silent installation

Before you begin

  1. Ensure that you downloaded the Dynamic Workload Console eImage (for details, see the Download Document at https://workloadautomation.hcldoc.com/help/topic/com.hcl.wa.doc_9.4/distrDDguides.html).
  2. Verify that your system meets the product system requirements by running a check: Checking system prerequisites for the Dynamic Workload Console.
  3. Before starting to install, verify that the user running the installation process has the following authorization requirements:
    Windows operating systems

    If you set the Windows User Account Control (UAC), your login account must be a member of the Windows Administrators group or domain administrators group with the rights Act as Part of the Operating System.

    If you set the Windows User Account Control (UAC) on the workstation you must run the installation as administrator.

    UNIX and Linux operating systems
    You can silently install the Dynamic Workload Console both as root and non-root user.

    See Installation procedure for Dynamic Workload Console for non-root installation limitations.

About this task

When you run a silent installation, you have the Installation Manager already installed and you use an XML response file that contains parameters required to install the product package.

Select the appropriate response file, determine the eImages you need to download and extract, and then customize the properties in the response file including the settings for the repository location of the eImages before performing the silent installation.
Important: During the silent installation, if the location specified for a repository is not found, then correct the location and before rerunning the installation, clear the repository locations from IBM Installation Manager.
  1. Open the Preferences panel in Installation Manager.
  2. From the Repositories page, select and remove the repository location in error.
  3. Correct the repository location in the response file.
  4. Rerun the silent installation.
To silently install Dynamic Workload Console product package you can have one of the following scenarios:
Installing the Dynamic Workload Console package:
The Dynamic Workload Console prerequisites are already installed. For more information, see Performing a Dynamic Workload Console silent installation.
Installing the Dynamic Workload Console package and its prerequisites:
You need to install the Dynamic Workload Console package and its prerequisites. For more information, , see Performing a Dynamic Workload Console and its prerequisites silent installation.
Installing the Dynamic Workload Console and master domain manager packages and their prerequisites:
You need to install the Dynamic Workload Console package, Dynamic Workload Console prerequisites packages, master domain manager package, master domain manager prerequisites packages. For more information, see Performing a silent installation of HCL Workload Automation and its prerequisites and a Dynamic Workload Console and its prerequisites.