Weblogic Silent Installation

Weblogic Silent Installation 

1.To install the Bea in Silent mode, we need to specify the arguments as "-mode=silent"

2.and Specify the silent.xml path

3.Silent.xml contains, the BEA Home path,Installation Directory path,Need to specify which component need to install

4.Optionally we can specify the path for the temp directory for extracting the compressed jars

5.Optionally we can specify the log path which can be used for the Tracing the installation errors or exceptions.

6.The installation program does not display any configuration options during the installation process, So u must collect the Licence Agreement and terms & Conditions Documents in advance.

7.Silent Mode of Installation is not available for NetInstallers. So u can use only package Installers.

8.U can use any Package Installer according to your Operating System/Hardware Architecture like: “Jar Installer”   or “executable” Installers  (*.bin or *.exe)

9.Silent-mode installation requires the same amount of temporary disk space and uses the same temporary storage directories as a standard installation.

10.Incorrect entries in the silent.xml file can cause installation failures. So it is always recommend that you create a log file when you start the installation. using (-log option)

11.The XML definition (<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>) must be at the very beginning of the silent.xml template file, without any preceding space or line breakes in it.