Remote Installation Issue

[WutongDeath]

Need help!

Does IA support remote installation as following? How?

1. Launch Setup.msi on Box A.
2. Select the remote Box B.
3. Setup install the product on Box B.

Thanks.

[pv7721]

You could try to either use SSH (SCP) (but if you say .msi I assume you think in the windows environment) but maybe you could try to set the installation folder to \\remotehost\c$\target installation folder (but I don't know how you would input the username and password if different from the original host); but why not connect directly to the remote host and then install locally?!?

[barryklecka]

I do this in my installer using an ANT script.

- In IA add an action to execute an ANT script.
- In the dependencies section of the action you just added, include the JAR files jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar and commons-net-1.4.1.jar. Jar versions can be different those just the two I use. you can find and download those off the net.
-Create an ANT script file using the tasks FTP and TELNET. Those are not available because you included those two jar files.

Example ANT script that does:
- makes a folder called etc
- FTP over some installation files/folders to that etc folder.
- telnets into the server and executes a script install_main.ksh
- FTP back over and retreive the install.log file and check for errors on the install


project name="remote install" default="install" basedir=".">







userid="${host.user}"
password="${host.passwd}"
action="mkdir"
remotedir="${host.rdir}\etc">


userid="${host.user}"
password="${host.passwd}"
remotedir="${host.rdir}\etc"
binary="yes">






ogin:
$OSUSER$
assword:
$OSPWD$
:
$RUSER_INSTALL_DIR$\etc\scripts\install_main.ksh
COMPLETE
exit





userid="${host.user}"
password="${host.passwd}"
remotedir="${host.rdir}\etc"
action="get">