Automated Nimsoft agent installs via chef

[kbocsl]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make a chef recipe to install the nimsoft agent on Windows boxes, but the installer i have (NimBUS Robot 7.63.exe) doesn't seem to be responding to any of the commandline switches it's supposed to, ie:  /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART

 

I’ve also tried some of the standard installshield switches such as /s /sms /q /qn etc but no luck, every time it's run it brings up the gui installer so i can't install it.

 

I do have a nms-robot-vars.cfg in the installer directory with the information it needs to connect.

 

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? Is it the error behaviour, ie if it sees an nms-robot-vars.cfg but it's not got accurate config in it , it silently falls back to the gui installer?

[Hallett German]

Moving it to IM since it is not about APM

[Gene Howard]

HI,

 

Please check your UIM primary server location:

<Nimsoft>\install\setup

You should see a file called:

nimsoft-robot-x64.exe

 

This is the third party installer version for the robot that works with the command and answer file you are trying to use.

[kbocsl]

Thanks Gene, 

 

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. That's done the trick, I was using the wrong installer, as you say.