RE: Examples on installation packages

Hi Christian,

If we can make InstallShield accept installation parameters from a
configuration file, we can use SmartFrog to automate the installation
process.

There are few useful components like telnet/ssh/scp/ftp are available in
SmartFrog CVS repository under core/components. You may want to have a look.
These components can be combined in workflows to automate the installation
process completely.

Ashish


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  Subject: [Smartfrog-support] Examples on installation packages


  Hi folks,

  I'm an HP R&D engineer from a small group based in Puerto Rico. We're
heavily involved in UDC R&D, and we're already under way to have our own
local IA-64 based UDC, using SmartFrog to allocate/deallocate resources and
applications. One of the applications that we're very interested in is
dynamic server allocation/deallocation, and the dynamic web server is a
perfect example of that. Another application is that of installing and
deploying software packages that aren't simply unzipped into a directory and
run. This is most notable on Windows, where installer programs such as
InstallShield are interactive and require the user to actually deal with
various installation parameters. Would you happen to have an example of an
SF component explaining how such a process could be automated, or dealt
with?

  Many thanks for your help.

  Best regards,

  Christian

        Christian J. Bonilla, P.E.


        R&D Engineer


        HP Technology Center

        Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

        Voice: 787-819-6074     FAX: 787-819-6502

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