Installing the IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager on the Windows
operating system in unattended (silent) mode
Use the following steps to install the IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager in your
Windows environment using the unattended (silent) mode. When you are installing
on a DS8000 storage unit, you are generally installing the offline management type.
This management type allows you to plan and construct storage unit configurations
without being connected to the network. However, you cannot use the Copy
Services or parallel access volumes (PAVs) features while disconnected from the
network.
Before you install the IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager, verify that the
prerequisite software and hardware are installed on your system. The installation
program checks for prerequisites and stops if any prerequisites are missing.
Note: The DS Storage Manager is not supported on any Windows 64-bit operating
system.
The unattended (silent mode) installation option allows you to run the installation
program unattended. Use this method of installation to customize a response file
and to issue a command from a command prompt window. The response file is a
template on the IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager CD.
Perform the following steps to install the IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager in
your Windows environment using the unattended mode:
1. Log on to your Windows system as an administrator.
2. Insert the IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager installation CD into the
CD-ROM drive. If the interactive mode starts, click the Exit selection on the
LaunchPad window to exit.
3. Locate the response file (responsefile.txt) in the root directory of your CD and
copy it to a directory of your choosing on your system, or open a command
prompt window and generate the template response file.
To generate the template response file, perform the following steps:
a. Ensure that your command prompt is located at the root directory of the
CD-ROM drive.
b. Type setup.exe -options-template <responsefile-
path>\<responsefile>, where responsefile-path is the path where you
want the response file to be created, and responsefile is the name of the
response file that you want to create.
c. Press the Enter key and wait for the program to create the response file.
4. Open the response file using a text editor and modify the default options with
the values that you want.
Follow these guidelines when you modify the default options:
v Remove the three # characters from the beginning of each line that contains
a parameter (if you generated the response file as shown before). Change
the parameter default value to the value that you want for that option. You
must enclose all values in double quotation marks (″<value>″).
v Verify that all paths generated or modified in the response file are correct.
There are some cases when the generated file displays an incorrect string
representing the path of the installation location. For example, the parameter
″-P installLocation = ″C:Program FilesMy Product″″ is wrong and must be
″-P product.installLocation = ″<directory where you want the DS Storage
Manager installed>″″
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