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Jun 28, 2020 at 09:25 AM

SQL Anywhere 17 silent installation via Chef (configuration management tool)

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Hello,

I'm having problems installing SQL Anywhere 17 in silent / unattended installation mode when using Configuration management tool - to be precise: using Chef. I'm trying to configure this automatically on Windows 2016.

"Manually" kicking off the silent install mode is successful, however when I execute the same command with Chef it fails.

The reason for that is the splash screen of the product that pops up even during silent installation. Chef is being kicked off remotely and there is no GUI attached to it. When the splash screen appears, then chef fails with windows error code 1603.

Is there a way to install the software silently without anything appearing on the screen? The current usage kind of defeats the silent installation purpose...

Any help would be much appreciated on this.

Thanks,

Gergo