Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows
In the upgrade mode this option is ignored; the installer does not install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
SP3 on the local server even if set true. The database information of the existing install is used.
NOTE: HP Systems Insight Manager automatically upgrades MSDE to SQL Express 2005 SP3 even if the
<installSQLEXPR> tag is set to True or False.
<dbUserName>
Provide the database user account information from the existing HP Systems Insight Manager install.
<dbDomain>
Provide the domain for the user account.
<dbHost>
Provide the database server name or IP address of the existing HP Systems Insight Manager install.
NOTE: Upgrades of HP Systems Insight Manager using silent.xml does not support upgrades from HP
Systems Insight Manager configured to an oracle database.
<dbInstance>
Provide a valid existing instance name of the existing HP Systems Insight Manager install.
<dbName>
Provide the valid database name of the existing HP Systems Insight Manager install.
<dbPort>
Use default 1433 or provide a valid port. HP Systems Insight Manager service Information:
<svcuserName>
Provide the user account of the existing HP Systems Insight Manager install.
<svcDomain>
Provide the domain for the user account. Installation Location:
<baseInstallLocation>
and
<hpsimInstallLocation>
The silent install uses the previous HP Systems Insight Manager installation location on the target system.
<allowReboot>
Set this to true or false as desired. A server reboot is recommended after upgrading HP Systems Insight
Manager and partner components. The silent.xml lists all the components with their product IDs for install.
Set the
<install>
value to true if you want to upgrade that particular component.
NOTE: HP Systems Insight Manager and HP System Management Homepage always upgrade even if
their <install> is set to false.
IMPORTANT: For a Silent upgrade, the service or database user name containing special characters, such
as: &, <, &, <, >, ', " must be escaped appropriately as below in the silent.xml file:
& &
< <
> >
' '
" "
For example, for a user name such as user&1, the entry in silent.xml would be user&1.
For a silent install/upgrade embedded quote ( " ) character in service or database password is not supported.
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