Installing Agent in the silent mode on macOS

To get started with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester Agent on macOS, in addition to the GUI mode, you can also use the silent installation method to install the product.

Before you begin

You must have elevated privileges access.
You must have completed the following tasks:
- Uninstalled the previous version of the product. See Uninstalling Agent in the GUI mode on macOS
- Deleted the installer.properties file generated from the previous installation if you are installing a newer version of the product.
- Verified the software and hardware requirements. See System Requirements.
- Created a properties file that contains the inputs for the installer during the installation process. See Creating the properties file on macOS for Rational Performance Tester Agent.

About this task

You can use the stand-alone installer and the product in your preferred language. The display language of your computer is selected as the preferred language of the stand-alone installer. For example, if the display language of your computer is set as French, then the preferred language of the stand-alone installer is also selected as French.

You can change the language of the stand-alone installer and the product by providing the -l language_code parameter during the installation of the product.

If you decided to configure the agent, later, then you can update the parameter values in the Majordomo.config file. The Majordomo.config file is at the following location:

/Application/HCL/HCLOnetest/Majordomo.config

Note: The SERVER_URL_ALIAS parameter name is shown as a slug in the Majordomo.config file.

Procedure

Download the product installer from the HCL® License & Delivery portal.

You must download the appropriate product variant, version, and architecture based on your requirements.
Open the terminal and log in as an administrator.
Run the following command to change the directory to a location where you downloaded the installer file:
```
cd <directory path>
```
For example, cd /Users/Applications/HCL/HCL-OneTest-<Product_Name>-mac-x64-v10.2.0.0.app
Extract the downloaded installer file.

Run the following command to install the product:

<installer_name> -i silent -l <language_code> -f <location_of_the_installer.properties_file_name>

For example, you can install the product in French by running the following command:

HCL-OneTest-<Product_Name>-mac-x64-v10.2.0.app -i silent -l fr -f /Users/Applications/HCL/installer.properties

The following table lists the language codes that you might want to choose during the installation:

Languages	Language codes
English	en
Japanese	ja
French	fr

Notes:

The -l parameter is optional. If you do not want to use this parameter, then the following information are displayed in a language based on the display language that is set on your computer:
- The installation instructions
- The language of the product
If the installation is terminated due to any reason, you must check the Installerror.txt file to know more about the problem that occurred during the installation process. The error log is located at /<installation directory>/Logs.

You can verify the status of the installation of the product by checking the log file at /<installation directory>/Logs.

Results

You have installed the product on your computer.