Single Click Customized Novell SecureLogin Installation

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Single Click Customized Novell SecureLogin Installation
23-Sep-2009 04:08 PM

Introduction

Installing NSL through a User interface or a responsefile.ini provided by an administrator can be time consuming and a dependant activity. This article explains how to independently install NSL on a 64 bit machine without facing any UI hassles or without being dependent on administrator.

Description

NSL is now supported on 64 bit machines. In order to install NSL on your 64 bit machine, you have to follow a general procedure of either going through full UI option or installing in silent mode.

To install in full UI mode, you will have to go through the user interfaces and provide all the options relevant to you.

To install in silent mode, you will have to depend on the administrator to provide you with a responsefile.ini which contains all the configurations for installing NSL.

This article walks you through how to install NSL with a single click without going through the User interfaces and without being dependent on the administrator, yet providing a customized install for NSL matching your needs.

Steps:

1. Download a latest version of NSL and save it on your workstation
2. Open any text editor. (Notepad,Notepad++ etc)
3. Copy paste the text given here in a text file
   INSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\ X_CACHEDIR=%APPDATA% X_INSTALLTYPE=EDIR PROTOCOLFOREDIR=LDAP X_USEGPO= IS_SECRETSTORE= NMASCLIENT= LDAPCREDASSOC= LDAPMODE=APP LDAPSERVERADDRESS=ldapserveraddress LDAPPORT=636 PCPROX= SW_INST=Yes X_SMARTCARD=No X_SMARTCARDLIB= X_CSP= X_RUNATSTARTUP=Yes X_INSTALLADMIN=Yes X_INSTALLCITRIX=Yes DAS_INST=Yes LOCATIONFORXML=Local DASSERVER= DASCONFIGOBJECT= READERPORT= CARDREADER= AIRID= RETRIES= TREE= SERVER= SEQUENCE= LDAPSERVER= ALTERNATE1= ALTERNATE2=
4. Name and save the file as responsefile.ini.
5. Now you can modify this file as per your needs. (Details mentioned after the steps)
6. Either place this responsefile.ini in the same folder as Novell securelogin.msi and just double click the msi
7. Or use the command line as follows from the path where MSI is placed
   msiexec /i "Novell SecureLogin.msi" /qn PATHTOISS ="Absolute Path of the custom responsefile.ini"

To customize the install using the property value combination you can use the below mentioned link
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...a/blcgk41.html

Table for property and their possible values to customize NSL installation:

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Table 1

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Table 2

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Conclusion:

Using the above steps you will have the flexibilty of creating your own responsefile and also sharing the same with others. This approach works good if you are installing NSL on a 64 bit machine only. Use the same and have fun installing NSL with just a click.

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