Policy Server Silent/Unattended Upgrade

Products

• SITEMINDER
• CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

What is the correct procedure for an unattended upgrade of the policy server?

Environment

Release : All

Resolution

1) Perform interactive mode upgrade to the desired version - this will create the needed ca-ps-installer.properties file 
2) Copy the resulting ca-ps-installer.properties file to the system(s) where you want to perform the unattended upgrade
3) Make sure the policy server is running on the target system and execute the silent upgrade with one of the following commands:

Windows:
ca-ps-version-win32.exe -f "C:\Program Files\CA\siteminder\install_config_info\ca-ps-installer.properties" -i silent

Unix:
ca-ps-version-linux-x86-64.bin -f ca-ps-installer.properties -i silent

Be sure to replace ca-ps-version with the actual version number, for example:
ca-ps-12.8-sp07-linux-x86-64.bin