Silent Installation of Agent using a powershell Script

Products

• CA Client Automation - IT Client Manager
• CA Client Automation

Issue/Introduction

How to install Agent silently using a powershell script ?

Environment

Client Automation - 14.5

Resolution

Following article gives the command lines to install DSM Agent : How to install Agents using MSIEXEC commands?

File install_agt.ps1 attached to this article is a powershell script example for installation of a DSM Agent.
it could be executed with a command line like : 

powershell -file install_agt.ps1

Output example :

 

Remark :
At beginning of the script adapt the value of these 3 parameters :

$SourceDir="C:\temp\AGT_145"
$ScalaServerName="SCALANAME"
$DestDir="C:\Program Files (x86)\CA"

SourceDir is the path of DSM Agent source 
ScalaServerName is the name of the Scalability Server
DestDir is the path of target installation directory