Silent installations using response files
IBM® Installation Manager can generate a properties file, known as a response file, when you are running the interactive installation program. You can edit an existing response file or create your own.
Silent installations, like graphical installations, consist
of two parts:
- Extracting InfoSphere® MDM assets onto the file system and preparing the madconfig configuration tool. In both graphical and silent installations, this step is performed by IBM Installation Manager.
- Configuring InfoSphere MDM by
running the installation configuration command line tool (
madconfig Configure_MasterDataManagement
).
Tip: Unlike a graphical installation, however,
silent installations provide you with the option to run both steps
(extract and configure) together in a single stage. To achieve this,
configure the response file to automatically start the installation
configuration tool:
- Open the response file in a text editor.
- Modify the following variable so that the value is
true
:<!-- Launching configuration process from Installation Manager --> <data key='user.L2.launch.config.from.silent.install.flag,com.ibm.mdm.advanced' value='true'/>
- To change the setting so that the configuration tool does not
start automatically, change the value of the variable to be
false
.