Endpoint Protection

I've just upgraded our environment to SEP 12.1.3. To deploy the new client to our users I have to create 4 Installation Packages per corresponding  SEP Group in our environment (1 silent 32Bit, 1 unattended 32 bit, 1 silent 64Bit, 1 unattended 64 bit, with needed settings for the given group).  Using the GUI to export the package is very time consuming so I'd like to automate this process.  Instead of using the GUI to export and create these packages I'd like to script the process using the command line. Is this possible? If so, can anyone point me to where I can find the commands to do this? Or give examples.

Hi Bryon,

I dont think that you can do the export of packages script based. I never heard about something like this. How long it takes you to export a package from the SEPM ?

i have never heard of this method. is your SEPM overloaded for the package to generate?

It's perfectly possible to accomplish this, and it doesn't even require any messing about with the SEPM.

Presumably, you have older 12.1 client package exported which already behave the way you need.  All you need to do is grab the below files from the older packages, and place them in the new SEP client version's directory:

These control how the installer behaves and what it installs:

• setAid.ini (http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO81039)
• Setup.ini

This controls which SEPM the client will connect to, and which is the preferred group:

•  SyLink.xml (http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55047)

It should be fairly simple to write a script to copy the 12.1RU3 client installer a few times of times (i.e. the SEP and SEPx64 folders inside the Part1 download from FileConnect), and paste the above files (taken from an earlier exported, known-working, client package) into the new copies to replace the existing files.

Note:  These should be what you need, but will produce client install packages that are not bundled into a single executable.

#Edit

Hi,

Thumbs up to above advice & Thank you for posting in Symantec community.

SEP 12.1 & Dos commands

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/sep-121-dos-commands

Other helpful articles:

Available Command-Line Options for Smc.exe

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH103048

Windows commands for the client service

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO26882

How to uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client silently using the command line

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH105827

MSI command line reference for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH102668

Thanks for the reply guys.  SMLatCST, thanks for the information, that is exactly what I was looking for. Chetan, thanks for the additional information.