Unattended (silent) installation

WebSphere® MQ for Windows® is installed using the Microsoft® Installer (MSI). You can invoke MSI directly, without using the WebSphere MQ Installation Launchpad. This means that you can install WebSphere MQ on a machine without interaction. This process is called unattended (or silent) installation, and is particularly useful for installing WebSphere MQ over a network on a remote machine, because you can install from a shared drive on a LAN server.

The machine on which you want to install must be able to share the WebSphere MQ Server CD, or a copy of the files on it, and you must be able to execute a command on that machine. The silent install methods assume that you have already installed any prerequisites for the features you plan to install. For a list of the prerequisites required for each feature see Table 1. The prerequisites can be installed in the setup panels of the Launchpad, see 1 for more information on how to do this.

There are several ways to invoke MSI without using the WebSphere MQ installation launchpad. These are:

Also, you can use Microsoft System Management Server to install WebSphere MQ. SeeInstalling with Microsoft System Management Server.