InstallAnywhere 2020
When you add an installer to a VM configuration for a virtual appliance (that is, when you add an installer to the Installers subtab of the VM Configuration tab in the Build Appliances view of the Build page), InstallAnywhere determines the installer’s response variables and displays the Edit Installer Properties Table dialog box. This dialog box is where you enter default values for the response variables. The values (or response options) need to be supplied to the installer in order for it to silently install on the virtual appliance. When the virtual appliances are being built, the default values that you have specified are used to configure the installation.
If you are creating a multi-tier virtual appliance for VMware vSphere, ensure that you define the properties that each tier in your virtual appliance needs in order to connect to each other. For example, you may need to configure the IP address, port number, user name, and password of your database tier so that your application tier can connect to it.
To open the Edit Installer Properties Table dialog box:
| 1. | On the Build page, click Build Appliances. |
| 2. | Click the VM Configuration tab. |
| 3. | In the list of products, select the View/Edit button for the product whose properties you want to edit. |
On the Edit Installer Properties Table dialog box, you can perform the following tasks:
| • | Edit a property—In the Value setting for each product property, specify a value. When InstallAnywhere runs this installer on the virtual machine, it passes these customized values to the installer. |
| • | Add a property—If you want to add a property that was not automatically discovered by InstallAnywhere, click Add. |
Note • This is a required step when using third-party installers because InstallAnywhere is unable to automatically discover the properties in a third-party installer.
| • | Remove a property—To remove a property from the list, select it and click Remove. |
Note • Alternatively, to override the discovery algorithm (which could take time for bigger installers), you can specify the response file directly on the Add Installer/Edit Installer Dialog Box; InstallAnywhere will obtain the response variables from the file that you specify.
InstallAnywhere 2020 Help LibraryOctober 2019 |
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