Deployment: ASF Administrator's Guide

# Deployment

- Overview

- Installing the Agent Silently

- Administrative Installation

- Uninstalling the Agent Silently

## Overview

This section describes methods that are available to install ASF to a single computer, as well as deployment to multiple computers on your network. Once installed, there are a myriad of tools to configure ASF on your client computers. The following two scripts assist in configuring ASF on your client computers:

- VBScript

- Login Script

| NOTE: The script parameters need to be updated to reflect your network and configuration preferences.

## Installing the Agent Silently

You can run silent installations for complete and custom installations.

| NOTE: When typing commands, enter spaces exactly as shown in the examples in this section.

### Performing a Silent Complete Installation

The following command line runs a silent, unattended installation of Intel® PRO Alerting Agent with all components to the default directory:

> setup.exe /qn
> [SMARTINSTALL=<SmartInstLevel>]
> [INSTGUI=<GuiInstLevel>]
> [/Lv "asfmsi.log}

where setup.exe is the installation executable file for Intel PRO Alerting Agent.

Option | Parameters | Meaning
/I | Package/ProductCode | Installs or configures a product
/q | n | No User Interface
/L | v Logfile | Log verbose, output to log file
SMARTINSTALL | <SmartInstLevel> | 0=Install ASF Agent without checking BIOS compatibility and adapter presence. 1 = Install ASF Agent only if BIOS supports ASF and machine has at least one ASF-enabled adapter. 2 = Install ASF Agent only if BIOS supports ASF.
INSTGUI | <GuiInstLevel> | 0 = Do not install GUI application. 1 = Install GUI.

### Performing a Silent Custom Installation

To specify a custom installation directory, modify the command line as follows:

> setup.exe /qn INSTALLDIR="<destination>"

where <destination> is the custom directory and INSTALLDIR must be upper case.

For example, the following command line silently installs under the directory c:\destination:

> setup.exe /qn INSTALLDIR="c:\destination dir"

## Administrative Installation

Software provisioning features such as those found in LanDesk* Management Suite or Computer Associated* TNG UniCenter require that the install files be made available from a fixed location. Since the Intel PRO Alerting Agent installation utilizes Microsoft Installer technology, you must perform an administrative installation - a process by which all the files in the installation package are decompressed and made available on the designated network share. For additional information on administrative installs, consult the Microsoft Installer documentation at www.microsoft.com.

Listed below is the command line that silently installs the agent software on the network share.

> setup.exe /a <Network Location>\ASFAgent.msi /qn

You can use the server image to deploy the agent to client computers on your network by using a login script, Microsoft Windows* 2000 system policies, or other methods. For example, the following command line installs silently using the server image:

> setup.exe /i <Network Location>\ASFAgent.msi /qn

where <Network Location> is the path to the server image.

| NOTE: For information on using the server image to deploy Intel PRO Alerting Agent, refer to the documentation for the application program that you are using as your deployment agent.

## Uninstalling the Agent Silently

You can silently uninstall Intel PRO Alerting Agent from the command line without using the installation program.

To silently uninstall the agent without the installation program, run the following command:

> setup.exe /X "ASFAgent.msi" /qn [/Lv "asfmsi.log"]

Option | Parameters | Meaning
/X | Package/ProductCode | Uninstalls a product
/q | n | No User Interface
/L | v Logfile | Log verbose, output to log file

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