HP SIM 5.1 Installation Issues (Custom Installation Path etc ...)

[Robert Klarmann]

Hello,

our HPSIM5.1 installaion was going wild and generating more than 60GB SQL DB and several GB of logfiles - I decided to uninstall HP SIM on the management server and make a new installation on a different partition.

Our "C" partition is 10 GB large and I like to install HP SIM on the "D" partition - with 120GB free space.

I tried to modify the "silent.xml" but the SIM Installation ignore that completly!

The relevant entries in the silent.xml are:

---


false
domadmin
domainname
sql-server

master
1433


hpsim
domainname

D:\Programme\HP
SIM
false

---

I'm starting the installation with these parameters:

c:\sim\hpsim\win_ia32\setup.exe C:\SIM\hpsim\win_ia32\silent.xml -dbpw "domadmin-pw" -svcpw "hpsim-pw"

HP SIM is completely ignoring me and try to install on the "C" partition

Does anyone have any hints for me?
Regards from Germany
Robert

[freebird (-.-)]

Yes, create the subdirectories that you want to install the app before you run the command, and plant your xml on the correct installation partition. I have had trouble with the silent installs creating their own sub-directories.

-- Rich

[Robert Klarmann]

Hi,

I've tried your hint and created the directory in advance ... but ... setup won't work as supposed.

Regards
Robert

[Joel Rubenstein]

Robert,

Have you tried to install SIM using interactive mode? You can perform a custom install and then specify the disk drive and directory you wish to use.

[Robert Klarmann]

Sure I tried ... if you select interactive install you can't select an installation path. SIM installs always to %programfiles% (=c:\program files)

:-(

Regards
Robert

[Joel Rubenstein]

When you select a custom install you will not be prompted for the SIM install path until after the SIM installation begins.