Tivoli Storage Manager Installing the Clients


Appendix B. Customizing the Installation for OS/2

CID is an OS/2 based set of components that permits you to automate the software installation. An administrator who wants to let users install TSM on their local machines through a LAN, instead of diskettes, can put all of the installation files into a single directory on a remotely attached disk or file server and make the necessary changes to the response and command files. Users can then link their workstations to that disk or file server and perform the installation by executing the cidinst command file.

Two installation package files can be edited to fit individual requirements: cidinst.cmd and adsmxxx.rsp,where xxx represents the language. For example, adsmesp.rsp for Spanish. See cidinst.cmd for more information on response files.

To prepare for the CID installation, the file server administrator must do the following:

  1. Copy the TSM CD--ROM to the file server. Use the copy or xcopy command.
  2. Edit the cidinst.cmd command file to:
  3. If necessary, edit the TSM response file (adsmxxx.rsp, which is used in conjunction with the cidinst.cmd file) to change the following:

You can now attach to the remote disk or file server and start cidinst.cmd to install TSM. This procedure assumes that the CID environment is already set up. To start cidinst.cmd, either change your working directory to its location on the file server or add the location to the beginning of the PATH statement:

   set path=x:\tivoli\tsm\client\ba;%path%


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