A.1 Silent Installation of the Orchestration Agent

In a large data center, it might not be practical to perform an interactive configuration of the Orchestration Agent on the multiple servers that you intend to use for Cloud Manager resources. The information in this section provides information that can help you perform a silent installation and configuration of the agent.

A.1.1 Silent Install and Configuration of the Orchestration Agent for Windows

The Cloud Manager Orchestration Server includes an installation help page that provides tips for installing the Windows Orchestration Agent on many machines when you want to use scripting or automation to perform a silent installation.

The page is accessed from the Orchestration Server IP address:

http://IP_address:8001/install.html

Figure A-1 Orchestration Agent Silent Installation Help

A.1.2 Silent Installation and Configuration of the Orchestration Agent RPM

Use the following process to configure the Orchestration Agent RPM (downloaded from the product ISO) on multiple servers:

  1. Perform the product installation and manual configuration of the agent on a “seed” machine. The processes to do this are described in (referenceto Agent Install).

  2. On the “seed” machine, copy the file found at /etc/opt/novell/novell_zenworks_orch_install.conf to a location where you can modify it locally.

  3. Edit the local copy of novell_zenworks_orch_install.conf, updating the fields that require a password (for security purposes, when a configuration program runs, the passwords in the .conf file are deleted).

  4. Edit any other fields as necessary for the configuration of the Orchestration Agent.

  5. Distribute the modified file to the machines where you want to perform a silent configuration.

  6. At a machine where you distributed the .conf file, open YaST and perform the Add-on Installation of the RPMs as described in Section 2.2.3, Manually Installing the Agent Packages on SLES Machines. Make sure that you do not configure the agent manually.

  7. From the bash prompt on the machine where you are configuring the agent, run the following command:

    /opt/novell/zenworks/orch/bin/config -s -C $CONF_FILE
    

    where CONF_FILE is the modified configuration file from Step 5.

The silent configuration runs, then the agent is displayed in the Orchestration Console as registered with the server node.