DX Unified Infrastructure Management

I have a little question(s) about installing CA UIM robot to our servers/workstations via group policy. 
The first thing is:
The  Robot 7.62 (Nimsoft 8.0) had command line options, like /verysilent
After upgrading to 8.47 I tried to find ANY command line options but unfortunately i did not succeed.

So, i need to install Robot 7.80 as verysilent AND 
The second thing:
When robot 7.62 was installed the default IP address of the client was 127.0.0.1;
after ANY network issue the robot was disconnected from CA UIM server and we got an error
from hub AND client's IP was changed to 127.0.0.1;
The remedy for this situation was to put the string robotip=10.0.0.x to the robot's config file
(or to edit controller probe config) 
So, i want to install the robot by something like this:
NumBus Robot.exe /verysilent /normalinstallation /hubip=10.0.0.100 /robotip=getlocalip /norestart 

Do I have any way to achieve the  goal?  Thanks!

Hi,

So you can use the ADE / Discovery_server process to deploy robots from UIM.

Deploy Robots in USM - CA Unified Infrastructure Management - 8.4.7 - CA Technologies Documentation 

or please see using third party installers to use an answer file

Deploy Robots in Bulk with a Third-Party Tool and Native Installers - CA Unified Infrastructure Management - 8.4.7 - CA … 

hope this helps

127.0.0.1 is loop back IP .Hope it is showing for Linux servers ..Pls add robotip = <ip address of server> in robot.cfg file and restart the robot.

if these are linux machines make sure the 127.0.01 is not listed first in the hosts file.

you can also try adding in the answer file the following:

   local_ip_validation = yes

Gene ,

 local_ip_validation = yes mst be in robot.cfg ?if means there is no need to add robot ip entry ?

you can add that to the answer file using third party installers.

or using ADE with and XML file.

if you KNOW the robot IP you can add that currently we do not have the ability to do a lookup function during install to get the robot IP and populate that value

Since we are cloning VM's it will not help in my case.

Hi Praveen, since you're cloning robots, check out this article:

https://www.ca.com/us/services-support/ca-support/ca-support-online/knowledge-base-articles.tec000004866.html 

Hope that helps!

Thanks Philip ,We are following the the above KB.

Hi,

check the /etc/hosts 

Verify /etc/hosts file, if it's just the loopback address you do need to add an entry with the actual IP address

EG

# /etc/hosts
171.12.32.105 nimsoftserver.domain.com nimsoftserver
127.0.0.1 localhost

Hello to all and thanks for your answers.

The time you discussed we found a perfect solution and it will work for 99.9% of our Windows systems.

As I described, we wanted to install The Robot 100% automatically. Without setting something in hosts file, without adding something etc.

So, the computers will have only one network card so ... we build a script that installs an old version of Robot (7.70, it has /verysilent key), runs ipconfig, gets ip address of computer and then edits robot.cfg file; and starts the Nimsoft service. Everything is automatically and via group policy script.

The next thing I need to add some probes automatically to the new client but it seems that it us another story

Thanks for all for your help!

Finally I found the way to bring here our way... This .cmd we use for installing NIMSOFT ROBOT 7.70 via Group Policy as Startup Script:

@echo off

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

IF EXIST "C:\Program Files\Nimsoft\bin\nimalarm.exe" (
GOTO :QUIT
) ELSE (
GOTO :INSTALL
)

:INSTALL
\\Here_is_your_Share\NETLOGON\Nimsoft_Robot\nimsoft-robot-x64.exe /verysilent /suppressmsgbox /norestart
xcopy /Y \\***\NETLOGON\Nimsoft_Robot\robot.cfg %temp%\
for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%i in ('ipconfig ^| findstr /I ipv4') do set localip=%%i
ren %temp%\robot.cfg robot.tmp
set change=robotip
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (%temp%\robot.tmp) do (
if %%a EQU %change% echo robotip = %localip% >> %temp%\robot.cfg
if %%a NEQ %change% echo %%a >> %temp%\robot.cfg
)
xcopy /Y %temp%\robot.cfg "C:\Program Files\Nimsoft\robot\"
del %temp%\robot.tmp
net start NimbusWatcherService

:QUIT
exit