How to automatically add additional agent parameters when running silent installations?

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• Workload Automation Agent
• DSERIES- SERVER
• CA Workload Automation DE - System Agent (dSeries)

Issue/Introduction

Description:

When using the silent installer to install numerous agents, it happens that the default agentparm.txt needs to be changed. Manually edit all the agents parameter files manually is tedious and time consuming. This document explains how additional properties can be automatically appended to the agentparm.txt file.

Solution:

Open the installer.properties file, which is available on the product CD or CA Support Online website, and add a RAW_DATA property.

RAW_DATA specifies a text file; this text file contains additional agent parameters that will be appended to the end of the agentparm.txt files whenrunning the silent installer. In UNIX, the property file name is unix_installer.properties when on Windows it is named win_installer.properties.

Example: assuming we want to add oscomponent.lookupcommand=true to all agentparm.txt files when running silent installs :

1. Edit unix_installer.properties or win_installer.properties depending on the OS, and create/edit the RAW_DATA line:
   
   RAW_DATA=/usr/home/Jim/extraAgentparm.txt
   
   
2. in extraAgentparm.txt add:
   
   oscomponent.lookupcommand=true
   
   
3. run the silent installer. the oscomponent.lookupcommand=true will be appended to all the agentparm.txt files of the installed agents.

Environment

Release: ATSYHA99000-11.3.5-Workload Automation AE-High Availability Option
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