Silent installation / Installer.properties issues

Question

1)In regards to Windows 2000 server when performing a silent installation of WebLogic
6.0 how can I specify the Path for the start menu (Short cuts for launching)
I can recall being able to do this prior to SP1 being bundled. Below is a copy
of the installer.properties file Example of cmd string C:\Weblogic600sp1_win.exe
-f installer.properties. Exe and properties file both reside in same directory
when being launched. I noticed when installing a second instance using a silent
properties it does not provide a second entry labeled as
(2) in the start menu like I does when installing not using the properties file
for a silent install.
INSTALLER_UI=silent
USER_LOCALE=en
BEAHOME=c:\\bea
USER_INSTALL_DIR=c:\\bea\\wlserver6.0sp1
C_domainName=mydomain
C_serverName=myserver
C_serverListenPort=7001
C_serverSSLListenPort=7002
C_password=changeme
CHOSEN_INSTALL_SET=Server
2)When performing a manual installation it will ask if you want it to start as
a service. How can you do this using the silent install to avoid running installntservice.cmd
as a post step? I have scripted it to run the cmd file once silent install completed
but what to know if it can be in the installer.properties file.
3)Once silent install has completed service starts you unable to access http://localhost:7001
from the same server in which Weblogic was installed.
In addition if you were to stop the service and launch the start menu version
cmd provided during the installation all seems to function as intended. To make
matter worst when I perform the installation (not using silent method) server
seems to be fine.
All seems to be straight forward what am I missing, I have read the documentation

Answer 1

Rick wrote:
1)In regards to Windows 2000 server when performing a silent installation of WebLogic
6.0 how can I specify the Path for the start menu (Short cuts for launching)
I can recall being able to do this prior to SP1 being bundled. Below is a copy
No you can NOT specify your program group in 6.0sp1. It would be installed to:
BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform (BEAHOME?)
where ? is zero or one integer number.
This is true for both silent and GUI installation.
of the installer.properties file Example of cmd string C:\Weblogic600sp1_win.exe
-f installer.properties. Exe and properties file both reside in same directory
when being launched. I noticed when installing a second instance using a silent
properties it does not provide a second entry labeled as
(2) in the start menu like I does when installing not using the properties file
for a silent install.
INSTALLER_UI=silent
USER_LOCALE=en
BEAHOME=c:\\bea
USER_INSTALL_DIR=c:\\bea\\wlserver6.0sp1
C_domainName=mydomain
C_serverName=myserver
C_serverListenPort=7001
C_serverSSLListenPort=7002
C_password=changeme
CHOSEN_INSTALL_SET=Server
2)When performing a manual installation it will ask if you want it to start as
a service. How can you do this using the silent install to avoid running installntservice.cmd
as a post step? I have scripted it to run the cmd file once silent install completed
but what to know if it can be in the installer.properties file.
You can do this by using
INSTALL_ NT_SERVICE=yes
in your installer.properties file. The default is no.
3)Once silent install has completed service starts you unable to access http://localhost:7001
from the same server in which Weblogic was installed.
In addition if you were to stop the service and launch the start menu version
cmd provided during the installation all seems to function as intended. To make
matter worst when I perform the installation (not using silent method) server
seems to be fine.
I don't quite understand the problem here. Do you mean this:
1. you finished silent install
2. you run installntservice.cmd to install the service
3. you started the service from control panel
4. you tried to access http://localhost:7001 and it failed.
is this what you mean?
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All seems to be straight forward what am I missing, I have read the documentation
-Dan