Cisco Systems 10.x Generating Answer File for Unattended Installation

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Install, Upgrade, and Maintenance Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 10.x

Chapter1 Installing CiscoUnity Connection

Installation Tasks

Step5 Select OK to start installing the software.

Step6 When the installation process completes, you are prompted to log in using the Administrator account

and password.

Step7 Complete the post-installation tasks that are listed in the Post-Installation Tasks, page1-24 section.

Generating Answer File for Unattended Installation

You can generate answer files using Cisco Unified Communications Answer File Generator web

application. To use the answer file during installation, you need to save the answer file to the root

directory of a floppy diskette, browse to the file during installation, and leave the installation to

complete.

In case of Unity Connection cluster:

•You need to generate separate answer files for publisher and subscriber servers.

•You are not required to enter details of the publisher server manually on the subscriber server during

subscriber server installation.

Note The Cisco Unified Communications Answer File Generator supports Internet Explorer version 11.0 or

higher and Mozilla version 28.0 or higher.

You need to perform the following tasks to generate answer file and create floppy image for unattended

installation.

1. Generate and download answer files that includes the platformConfig.xml files for both the publisher

and the subscriber server. For more information on how to generate answer files, see To Gener ate

and Download Answer Files using AFG, page1-16.

2. After generating the answer files, create a floppy image. For more information, see

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&exter

nalId=1739.

3. Deploy and configure the servers in the cluster, publisher and subscriber. For more information, see

the To Configure the Publisher Server on Virtual Machine, page1-17 and To Configure the

Subscriber Server on Virtual Machine, page1-17 section.

4. To install the publisher and subscriber server, see the Installing the Publisher Server, page1-12 and

Installing the Subscriber Server, page1-15 section.

To Generate and Download Answer Files using AFG

Step1 Log in to the Unity Connection Answer File Generator application. The answer file can be generated

using the following link: http://www.cisco.com/web/cuc_afg/index.html.

Step2 Enter details in the Clusterwide Configuration section.

Step3 Enter details for the primary node in the Primary Node Configuration section.