Installing Symantec Critical System Protection on Windows
About installing Symantec Critical System Protection on Windows
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Bypassing prerequisite checks
The Windows installation kit lets you bypass some of the prerequisite checks for agent and management server installation. You can use this feature if you know the installation kit is incorrectly failing a prerequisite.
When you use the bypass prerequisite checks feature, the installation kit displays all errors and warnings about prerequisite check failures. However, instead of terminating the installation, you may choose to continue.
When you run the installation kit in interactive mode, you are asked if you want to continue. When you run the installation kit in silent mode, the prerequisite failure is logged and the installation continues.
To enable the bypass prerequisite checks feature, do the following:
■(Agent only) For silent installs, set the ENABLE_BYPASS_CHECKS variable to a nonzero value.
■For interactive installs, the presence of the file
The Windows installation kit does not remove the
You can bypass the following checks when installing the Symantec Critical
System Protection agent:
■Agent install disk space checks that are performed apart from MSI engine
■Service user account (allow domain users or local users even though the installer can not confirm the required rights and privileges)
■Existence of AppFire 4.5
You can bypass the following checks when installing the Symantec Critical
System Protection management server:
■Existence of AppFire 4.5
■Disk space checks
■User privilege and rights check for service user account
■MDAC version
