Silent Windows agent install

[Ko...@mnr.org]

Please, I need to install the Windows agent on 100's of xp clients that don't have a real desktop. Is there any non GUI install out there or examples of a way to copy the files reg change and create and Start the service. Thanks Christian....

[Dave S]

Check out this article
http://searchsecuritychannel.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid97_gci1323745,00.html

[Michael Starks]

I have worked the past couple of days on getting the Windows agent to
build/compile on Windows and to modify the nsis file to make the
installation silent with the /S switch (it sort of works now, but there
are issues). So now I have a binary that can be installed manually or
silently.

This doesn't handle keys. The next step will be to write a script that
takes the keys in client.keys on the manager and puts them on the hosts,
along with starting the service.

I'll blog about it when I'm done. With the instructions, you should be
able to deploy the agent with Group Policy, SMS, Altiris, or whatever,
but the key management will be sort of a manual step.

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Michael Starks
[I] Immutable Security
http://www.immutablesecurity.com