Silent Installation in QPR UI

There is silent installation available for QPR MobileDashboard, in which the installation is done in command line instead of installer wizard. Silent installation enables to automate QPR Mobiledashboard installation. Use the instructions below to contruct your own silent installation command.

Silent installation command has the following syntax:

[InstallerExePath] /s /v"/qn /Lv \"[InstallerLogFilePath]\" [parameters]"

Parameters are defined using syntax parametername=parametervalue.

Silent installation step by step

1. Download QPR MobileDashboard installation package (link is available in this wiki's mainpage).
2. Store the installation package to C:\temp\ (this is an example location; you can stored it to different location).
3. Construct you silent installation command by using the example command below and list of available parameters.
4. Test the silent installation command by opening command line (open Windows Start Menu and type cmd.)

Silent installation parameters

Following parameters are available:

• INSTALLDIR: QPR MobileDashboard installation directory. Usually C:\Program Files\QPR Software Plc\QPR MobileDashboard\
• GLASSFISHDIR: Glassfish installation directory. Usually C:\Program Files\QPR Software Plc\QPR MobileDashboard\Glassfish\
• IS_SQLSERVER_DATABASE
• IS_SQLSERVER_USERNAME: SQL Server username
• IS_SQLSERVER_PASSWORD: SQL Server user password
• IS_SQLSERVER_LIST
• DBSETUP: Use value ExistingDB, which defines that an existing database is used or NewDB for a new installation.
• IS_SQLSERVER_AUTHENTICATION:
• IS_SQLSERVER_SERVER: SQL Server computer name
• MEAWSURL: QPR Suite Web Service location:
• PAWSURL: QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web Service location:
• SSOS: Common QPR Authentication parameters that are stored to AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES setting in the QPR MobileDashboard database
• ISFOUNDNEWERPRODUCTVERSION
• USERNAME
• COMPANYNAME
• SUPPORTDIR
• GLASSFISHDOMAIN
• GLASSFISHSERVERNAME
• GLASSHFISHDIR
• DBINSTANCENAME
• USERDOMAIN: Domain name for database user account. Used in Windows authentication.
• ISSHOWMSILOG
• TXTMLSSOSERVICES
• SKIPDBVALIDATION
• SAML_AUTOMATIC_LOGIN, SAML_CONSUMER_URL, SAML_METADATA_URL, SAML_REDIRECT_URL, SAML_SERVER_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER, SAML_SIGNING_CERTIFICATE, SAML_USER_ID_ATTRIBUTE: Federated authentication parameters that are stored in the QPR MobileDashboard database with same setting names.

Example command

C:\temp\QPRMobileDashboard.exe /s /v"/qn /Lv \"C:\temp\MDInstallerlogfile.txt\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\QPR Software Plc\QPR MobileDashboard\" GLASSFISHDIR=\"C:\Program Files\QPR Software Plc\QPR MobileDashboard\Glassfish\" IS_SQLSERVER_USERNAME=user IS_SQLSERVER_PASSWORD=pass IS_SQLSERVER_DATABASE=QPREntice DBSETUP=ExistingDB IS_SQLSERVER_AUTHENTICATION=1 IS_SQLSERVER_SERVER=localhost MEAWSURL=http://localhost/metrics/Portal/QPR.Isapi.dll/wsforward/MainService.svc/webHttp/ PAWSURL=http://localhost/current/MainService.svc/webHttp/ SSOS=WAS,http://localhost/metrics/Portal/QPR.Isapi.dll;PA,http://localhost/current/MainService.svc/webHttp/; WS,http://localhost/metrics/Portal/QPR.Isapi.dll/wsforward/MainService.svc/webHttp/ "