Silent Greenplum Binary install

Products

• VMware Tanzu Greenplum

Issue/Introduction

Greenplum binary currently doesn't have a silent installation mode. Sometimes when installing on a platform or building a script, you need silent installation mode. In this article, you will learn how to install the Greenplum binary in silent mode.

Environment

• Pivotal Greenplum all versions
• Operating System- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x

Resolution

The basic idea of silent installation is to subdue all the messages. In the below step you would be redirecting the message to "/dev/null"

There are two steps for the Greenplum Binary installation:

1. Installing the binary on the master:

To install Greenplum silent on the master, follow the instructions below:

/bin/bash <Installer> &>/dev/null << EOF 
yes
/usr/local/greenplum-db-<version>
yes
yes
EOF

2. Replicating the binary to all the segment:

Once the binary installation on the master is completed, the next step is to propagate the binaries to all the segments for which "gpseginstall" is used, to subdue all the messages. It can be done by using:

gpseginstall -f <hostfile> &>/dev/null