Generating the properties file on Windows

When you want to install the product software in the silent mode on Windows, you must provide the installation details in a properties file. You must first generate a properties file by using the stand-alone installer that contains the data required to install the product.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Read and ascertained that your computer meets the requirements specified in System Requirements and Prerequisites for using the stand-alone installer for using the stand-alone installer.
Read and completed any tasks indicated in Installation considerations for HCL Quality Server.
Migrated data in the HCL® Quality Server workspace, if you want to reuse the same workspace. See Migrating data in the HCL Quality Server workspace on Windows.
Downloaded the product software package that is dependent on the stand-alone installer for the supported operating system on your computer from the HCL FlexNet Operations (FNO) portal.
Extracted the downloaded package to a folder on the computer on which you want to install the product software.

About this task

You must provide the properties file that contains the required details in the command to install the product software in the silent mode. You must create a properties file for each of the product that you want to install.

Procedure

Enter the following command in the terminal after you replace the variables with values on your computer:

<Path_extracted_product>\<Extracted_Product_name.exe> -r <Destination_path>\<File_name_installer.properties>

Where:

<Path_extracted_product> is the path to the folder where you have extracted the downloaded package.
<Extracted_Product_name.exe> is the name of the product in the folder.
<Destination_path> is the path to the folder where the product must be installed.
<File_name_installer.properties> is the name of the installer.properties file.

For example, if you have the following conditions:

Extracted the downloaded product software package to the folder C:\Downloads\HCL_OT_API_1054_Install_IA_WIN
Find the name of the extracted product file is HCL-OneTest-API-Win-x64-v10.5.0.exe
Want to install the product in the folder C:\HCL\OneTest-API
Want to create the properties file with the name as api_installer.properties

Then the command to generate the properties file for HCL OneTest™ API is as follows:

C:\Downloads\HCL_OT_API_1054_Install_IA_WIN\HCL-OneTest-API-Win-x64-v10.5.0.exe -r C:\HCL\OneTest-API\api_installer.properties

Results

You have generated the properties file that you can use to install the product software in the silent mode.