Silently Installing Altiris Agent
Updated: 19 Jul 2007 | 4 comments
I really wanted a way to silently install Altiris Agent on my computers. So, I hunted around until I found out how. The Notification Server 6.0 SP3 Reference (check out pages 15 & 16 for all of the details) explains how to do this. Here is the script that I used to finally get it to work:
@ECHO OFF ECHO Installing Altiris Agent aexnsc.exe -s -a ns="ServerName" NOSTARTMENU NOTRAYICON /s /NOADDREMOVE Exit
To find out what all of the tags do, please see the above mentioned documentation.
To find the "aexnsc.exe" file, go to the following location: "C:\Program Files\Altiris\Notification Server\NSCap\Bin\Win32\X86\NS Client Package" on your Notification Server.
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Non-Admin?
Does this work for non administrators ?
Runs as Altiris Admin
I figured this Would run as the Altiris Admin Id...The user (aka non-admin) would see nothing....
Application Identity
This would install under the agent under the Application Identity. If you don't understand all the switches, just run AeXNSC.exe /? to see all the command line switches.
Jonathan Jesse Practice Principal ITS Partners
Installing Altiris Agent in non standard location
Should i Specify path to install as /agent/altiris/notification/nsagent if I want to install Altiris Agent in non standard location (/agent) or will it be OK if I give simply /agent.
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