[sims] FMS Silent Install

[FN-GM]

Hi,

 

I have a script to silently install SIMS, does anyone have one for FMS please?

 

Thanks

[vikpaw]

Dare i say SOLUS³

 

Or, @dhicks used to have some scripts or @matt40k but i can't find the latest, try these for inspiration :

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/78334-fms-thin-clients-crystal-reports-not-installed.html#post696501

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/72859-interface-dll-fms-posting.html#post650555

 

but read the threads through as they are old, and had some issues.

[dhicks]

Or, @dhicks used to have some scripts

 

My current school doesn't use SIMS any more, but when it did we used this batch file for a silent SIMS and FMS install:

 

@echo off
echo Installing SIMS...
net use s: \\ks-sims\SIMS /PERSISTENT:no

echo ...local package...
\\ks-nas1\Software\dotNet\4.0\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe /passive /norestart
\\ks-nas1\Software\SIMS\install.exe
copy "\\ks-nas1\Software\SIMS\connect.ini" "C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net"

echo ...with FMS...
S:\SIMS\Setups\FMSApplicationSetup.exe
mkdir "C:\Program Files\SIMS\Finance"
copy "\\ks-nas1\Software\FMS\FMSConnect.ini" "C:\Program Files\SIMS\Finance"
copy "\\ks-nas1\Software\FMS\FMSConnect.ini" "c:\WINDOWS\system32"
copy "\\ks-nas1\Software\FMS\FMSConnect.ini" "c:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net"
echo Sims Directory=C:\Program Files\SIMS\FMSSQL>>C:\WINDOWS\sims.ini
copy "\\ks-nas1\Software\FMS\PDOXUSRS.NET" "C:\"

s:
cd S:\Setups
call simsperm.bat CAMELOT\KS-SEC-SIMS
SubInAcl /FILE "C:\PDOXUSRS.NET" /GRANT=CAMELOT\KS-SEC-SIMS=F
c:

 

On our system, "\\ks-nas1\Software" is simply a folder containing all our software installers. I seem to remember needing to get the FMSConnect.ini and PDOXUSRS.NET files from a working copy of FMS. KS-SEC-SIMS is a security group that everyone who is allowed to use SIMS is made a member of, you might have different / multiple security groups to deal with - just duplicate the simsperm and SubInAcl line for each security group.

[vikpaw]

What do they have now?

[FN-GM]

Thanks for the help. The problem with Solus 3 will be setting it off in a task sequence.

 

Thanks

[dhicks]

What do they have now?

 

We now use School Manager, from CJM Software, a FileMaker-based database.The finances have been moved over to Sage.

[Mark_Atkins1]

You can create a command line script to run FMSApplication Setup.exe with a /s parameter to silently install.

 

You would then need to do something similar to ensure that the workstation has the correct FMSConnect.ini and SIMS.ini files.

 

Mark

[matt40k]

Thanks for the help. The problem with Solus 3 will be setting it off in a task sequence.

 

You would just have S3 agent install via MDT\SCCM with a command to query the db for the GUID so it keeps the channels, s3 would then install SIMS and FMS.

[FN-GM]

Just been playing with and it wont work if i only use the FMSApplicationSetup.exe. I if manually run FMS inst it does work. Just need to figure out how to get that silently installing.

 

Thanks

[Ephelyon]

We use this to do the lot:

 

@echo off

echo Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")> CheckVer.vbs

echo Wscript.Echo objFSO.GetFileVersion(wscript.arguments(0))>> CheckVer.vbs

cscript /nologo CheckVer.vbs "C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\FMSSQL\Finance.exe" | find "6.152.281.0" > nul && goto :cleanup

psexec -accepteula -is \\%computername% psexec -isx cmd /c \\blahblah.local\driveshares\MSI\FMS\FMSApplicationSetup.exe {QuietMode} [sIMSDotNetDirectory]="C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net"

copy /y \\blahblah.local\driveshares\MSI\FMS\FMSConnect.ini "C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\FMSSQL"

\\blahblah.local\driveshares\MSI\FMS\idapi32cfg.exe -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Borland Shared\Bde\idapi32.cfg" \\blahblah.local\driveshares\MSI\FMS\Settings.txt

:cleanup

del CheckVer.vbs

 

Then I just change the version number to look for every time the FMS upgrade is run on the SIMS server. The psexec bit is only to display the setup onscreen so users know why startup is taking so long - risky but otherwise they just switch it off sometimes, especially when I've got a lot of things to push out this way.

Edited September 29, 2013 by Ephelyon

[FN-GM]

Hi @Ephelyon

 

Where does idapi32cfg.exe come from please?

 

Thanks

[FN-GM]

Just testing but i think this works

 

simsinfrastructuresetup.exe -a {QuietMode} {FMSWorkstation}

FMSApplicationSetup.exe /s {QuietMode}

[Ephelyon]

Well, Settings.txt contains this:

 

DRIVERS\PARADOX\INIT\NET DIR = C:\Users\Public\Documents

 

Such that this is a writable location for end-users. It's a fix for a problem that I forget now.

[Gator2000]

Hi,

 

It's bdecli and it's from there https://github.com/oboroc/bdecli

Created by awesome man Adrian Oboroc