Silent upgrade

Upgrading HP SIM from the command line with an .xml file.

A silent.xml file resides in the same directory as setup.exe. This text file can be edited with any text editor. If upgrading HP SIM from the CD, copy the silent.xml to a location where the file can be edited. If upgrading HP SIM from the web, then after extracting the installation program, edit the silent.xml file and launch the setup in Silent mode. The silent.xml file contains the parameters for the upgrade process.

The option to perform a Silent upgrade is available through a command line installation. A silent install occurs when “setup.exe” is launched with the command line options for a Silent install.

Execute:

setup.exe –s “<path to silent file>” –svcpw “<service password>” –dbpw “<database password>”

Note: In the Upgrade mode, the svcpw and dbpw passwords provided should be that of the existing installs HP SIM server account and database account respectively. The install takes the existing installation locations of HP SIM and partner components.

Database information: Set <installSQLEXPR>.

In the upgrade mode this option is ignored; the installer does not install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition on the local server even if set true. The database information of the existing install is used.

<dbUserName>

Provide the database user account information from the existing HP SIM install.

<dbDomain>

Provide the domain for the user account.

<dbHost>

Provide the database server name or IP address of the existing HP SIM install.

Note: Upgrades of HP SIM using silent.xml does not support upgrades from HP SIM configured to an oracle database.

<dbInstance>

Provide a valid existing instance name of the existing HP SIM install.

<dbName>

Provide the valid database name of the existing HP SIM install.

<dbPort>

Use default 1433 or provide a valid port. HP SIM service Information:

<svcuserName>

Provide the user account of the existing HP SIM install.

<svcDomain>

Provide the domain for the user account. Installation Location:

<baseInstallLocation>

and

<hpsimInstallLocation>

The silent install uses the previous HP SIM installation location on the target system.

<allowReboot>

Set this to true or false as desired. A server reboot is recommended after upgrading HP SIM and partner components. The silent.xml lists all the components with their product IDs for install. Set the

<install>

value to true if you want to upgrade that particular component.

Note: HP SIM and System Management Homepage are always be upgraded even if their

<install>

is set to false.

	IMPORTANT: For a Silent upgrade, the service or database user name containing special characters, such as: &, <, &, <, >, ', " must be escaped appropriately as below in the silent.xml file: &amp; & &lt; < &gt; > &apos; ' &quot; " For example, for a user name such as user&1 , the entry in silent.xml would be user&amp;1. For a silent install/upgrade embedded quote ( " ) character in service or database password is not supported.

The installation/upgrade status of HP SIM and selected components are logged in the HP SIM.log and silentstatus.xml files. Both files are created in the root of the system drive.