Advanced Installation on Windows

situated.exe

As part of the final stage of installation by MSIEXEC, the situated.exe is executed to setup the agent. The MSI package does not change any registry keys, install the service or create any users and/or passwords. This is all performed by the situated.exe.

Installing

situated.exe -install
    [-user <user>] [-password <password>]
    [-installPath <path>] [-port <port>] [-ftport <ftport>]
    [-instance <instanceName>]

To install Situate, you can simply stage all the necessary files and run "situated.exe -install".

By default, situated runs as a local user account, "situate". On installation, a random password is generated. If you want to supply your own password, you can simply apply the -password switch. If you want to supply your own user (local or domain), you must specify both the user and the password.

Situate uses the 14000, and 14001 ports, respectively. You can specify alternate ports using the -port and -ftport switches.

-installPath can be used to install Situate an a non-default location.

-instance can be used to install a non-default instance of situate. This is necessary when more than one situate agent is installed on the same computer.

Uninstalling

situated.exe -remove

Running situated.exe with the -remove argument, removes the situate service. It does not remove the situate user, registry settings or any files.

The server config dialog calls situated.exe to make the registry changes required for Situate to be a server. Promote is called with the domain to be served and the authentication real the server should use for authentication. (For example: AD-xona.com)

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Configuring an Agent’s Authentication Services

On UNIX, the installation scripts attempt to determine which authentication services provide authentication for the computer. These are stored in the AUTH variable which is set in the /etc/situate.conf file.

On Windows, the agent discovers what domain the computer is in automatically. However, should you wish to override this setting, you may explicitly set the registry key: HKLM\Software\situate\SituateAgent\Auth.

The value of AUTH can be a comma-separated list.