Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 726)

Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077-01A Rev. A
Appendix D. AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters
AParg Driver Kit Parameter and Appending to the APInstall.exe File
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Appendix D. AutoPilot Installer Command Line
and Configuration File Parameters
The AutoPilot Installer can initiate an installation from a command prompt or script.
AutoPilot Installer can be run manually from the command line or a script, or it can be
run automatically by the driver kit. When run manually from the command line or
script, the command line parameters may be passed.
If you specify the “/q” switch with the driver kit installer command, the driver kit
installer runs in unattended mode and automatically invokes the APInstall.exe with its
“/silent” switch. See “Unattended Driver Installation” on page 569 for more
information.
AParg Driver Kit Parameter and Appending to the
APInstall.exe File
If you specify a value for the “APargs” driver kit parameter, this value is appended to
the APInstall.exe command line. For example, if you execute this installer file as:
elxdrv-fc-fcoe<version>.exe /q APargs=SilentRebootEnable=True
then after installing the AutoPilot Installer, the driver kit automatically executes it as:
APInstall.exe /silent SilentRebootEnable=True
To specify more than one parameter, separate the settings by one or more spaces and
put quotes around the entire APargs expression. For example, the command line (all on
one line):
elxdrv-fc-fcoe<version>.exe "APargs=SilentRebootEnable=True
localDriverLocation = "d:\drivers\new\Storport"
results in the AutoPilot Installer being run as:
APInstall.exe SilentRebootEnable=True localDriverLocation =
"d:\drivers\new\Storport"
Parameter values that contain spaces, such as path names, must be enclosed in quotes.
To add such a setting to APargs, you must insert backslashes before the quotes around
the value, and then add quotes around the entire APargs expression. For example, the
command line (all on one line):
elxdrv-fc-fcoe<version>.exe "APargs=ReportLocation=\"C:\Documents
and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\reports\""
results in AutoPilot Installer being run as:
APInstall.exe ReportLocation="C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\My Documents\reports"
If you have many parameters to pass to the AutoPilot Installer, or if you want to do so
repeatedly, then it may be less error prone to run the utility kit installer interactively,
delay AutoPilot Installer execution, and then run the AutoPilot Installer command
yourself. The procedure for doing so is described in “Option 2: Run the AutoPilot
Installer Separately” on page 567 and “Unattended Driver Installation” on page 569.