KB00008: Silent Installation of EventMaster Client

Description

You want to automate the installation of the EventMaster Client, and need to know the command line parameters that will allow a silent installation.

Resolution

All of our installation programs come as .exe files. You can use WinZip to extract the contents into a directory.

Once extracted, the EventMaster Client setup program is a Windows Installer MSI file. Here are the parameters required to install it silently:

msiexec /i EventMasterClient.msi MESSAGEMASTERSERVER=server TARGETDIR="installDir" /L*v logFile /qn

Parameter values:

• server - name of your MessageMaster server, e.g. MMSRV1
• installDir - set to C:\Program Files\Objective Software\ by default. If you wish to install into this directory, you can leave out the TARGETDIR parameter all together. An EventMaster sub-directory will be created under the ObjectiveSoftware directory.
• logFile - log file for Windows Installer to log results, e.g. c:\EMClient.log

If any of your parameter values contain a space, they must be enclosed in quotes, e.g. PARAMETER="Joe Smith".

Applies To

• EventMaster Client