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ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter Installation Guide

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Afteryousetupthescript,youcanuseittoinstallESX Serverfilesineitherofthe

followingways:

 FromtheESX ServerCDinthelocalCD‐ROMdriveofthenewsystem.

 Acrossthenetwork,usinginstallationfilesthatarehostedonaremoteserver.

Enabling Scripted Installation

AfteryouinstallESX Serveronasystem,youmustenablethescriptedinstallation

featurebeforeyoucanuseWebAccesstocreateaninstallationscript.

To enable scripted installation

1LogintotheESX Serverserviceconsoleasroot.

2Openthefollowingfileinatexteditorsuchasvi:

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/ui

/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml

3 Locatethescriptedsection.

4 Commentout

thelinereading:

<action path="/scriptedInstall"

type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"

parameter="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/disabled.jsp" />

5 Uncommentthefollowinglines:

<!--

<action path="/scriptedInstall"

type="com.vmware.webcenter.scripted.ProcessAction">

<forward name="scriptedInstall.form1"

path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form1.jsp" />

<forward name="scriptedInstall.form2"

path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form2.jsp" />

<forward name="scriptedInstall.form3"

path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form3.jsp" />

<forward name="scriptedInstall.form4"

path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form4.jsp" />

<forward name="scriptedInstall.form5"

path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form5.jsp" />

<forward name="scriptedInstall.form6"

path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form6.jsp" />

<forward name="scriptedInstall.form7"

path="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/form7.jsp" />

</action>

-->