So I was recently tasked with creating a silent install for HP Fortify 3.40 to 3.50.
The initial plan was to create a response transform using the MSI extracted from the EXE package using Installshield Editor. Then create a batch file to first import the certificate that was created for the group of users in our domain who were allowed this software.
But that did not work out as I was unable to create a response transform using the fortify MSI. Whenever I tried I kept getting this error message.
"An error occurred while generating a Response Transform. Would you like to open a blank transform instead of a Response Transform?"
After some googling I figured the best way to get past this was adding the ISSETUP=1 property using the property manager installshield editor and save the MSI and then try. As it happens it didn’t work out too well, I was able to get past the error but none of the binaries actually worked after install.
I tried a different tack and was succesful by creating an answer file for the setup itself. I used
which recorded a setup.iss file in the location specified.
The setup.iss file could then be edited in notepad to specify the location of the license
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-DlgOrder]
Dlg0={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdWelcome-0
Count=10
Dlg1={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdLicense2Rtf-0
Dlg2={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SelectDir-0
Dlg3={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdAskDestPath-0
Dlg4={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdComponentTree-0
Dlg5={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdStartCopy-0
Dlg6={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-AskOptions-0
Dlg7={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-ServerSettings-0
Dlg8={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-AskOptions-1
Dlg9={945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdFinish-0
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdWelcome-0]
Result=1
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdLicense2Rtf-0]
Result=1
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SelectDir-0]
Result=1
szDir=C:\Users\tausifkhan\Desktop\installer
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdAskDestPath-0]
szDir=C:\Program Files\Fortify Software\HP Fortify v3.40\
Result=1
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdComponentTree-0]
szDir=C:\Program Files\Fortify Software\HP Fortify v3.40\
SCA-type=string
SCA-count=1
SCA-0=SCA\SCA_FILES
AWB-type=string
AWB-count=4
AWB-0=AWB\IDE
AWB-1=AWB\ScanWizard
AWB-2=AWB\AWB_FPR
AWB-3=AWB\ProcessDesign
Component-type=string
Component-count=2
Component-0=SCA
Component-1=AWB
Result=1
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdStartCopy-0]
Result=1
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-AskOptions-0]
Result=1
Sel-0=0
Sel-1=1
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-ServerSettings-0]
updateServer=https://update.fortify.com
updateProxyServer=' '
updateProxyPort=' '
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-AskOptions-1]
Result=1
Sel-0=0
Sel-1=1
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SdFinish-0]
Result=1
bOpt1=0
bOpt2=0
The highlighted location was the part I needed to modify to pull the license off our fileshare. So instead of:
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SelectDir-0]Result=1
szDir=C:\Users\tausifkhan\Desktop\installer
I would modify it to :
[{945899E4-57F5-47D2-B66A-17D9AD5146CE}-SelectDir-0]Result=1
szDir=\\myfileshare\licenselocation
Which very conveniently did not involve keeping the license on the same location as the binaries.
Now all I needed to figure out was a way to install the certificate and then run the setup unattended using the answer file.
Installing the certificate involved the use of certutil:
certutil -addstore -user -f ”My” %locationofcert%\certifictate.cer
next I had to run the install itself and keep the window open while it installed. So:
@echo off
setLocal
:: local variable %percent% is reserved!
@echo off
echo Importing digital licence...
certutil -addstore -user -f ”My” %locationofcert%\certifictate.cer
echo Installing HP fortify X64
start /w C:\Users\TausifKhan\Desktop\installer\x64\HP_Fortify_3.40_SCA_and_Apps_Windows_x64.exe /s /f1C:\Users\TausifKhan\Desktop\installer\x64\setup.iss
call :DisplayProgressBar %sProc% 3
:End of Batch
goto:EOF --------------------
:DisplayProgressBar SUBROUTINE
If not defined percent (
setlocal
echo.&echo/ * DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW *&echo.
Set "wait=ping -n 200000 127.0.0.1 > NUL"
Set "monitoring=%1"
Set /a n = %2
set /a percent = 0
<nul (Set /P j=Installing)
) Else ( <nul (Set /P j=.) )
>nul 2>&1 (
title %percent% %% Completed
If %n% NEQ 1 (
For /f %%# in (
'tasklist.exe ^| find /i /c "%monitoring%"'
) Do if NOT %%# GTR 0 Set /a n = 1
)
)
>nul (%wait% %n%) & set /a percent = percent + 1
If %percent% LEQ 100 (
call:DisplayProgressBar
) Else (
title Done
<nul (Set /P j=) & echo/100%% Completed
>nul (%wait% 2)
EndLocal
)
goto:EOF --------------------
Which seemed to do the trick, the only problem was that I also needed to specify the location of setup.iss itself explicitly on the batch file. Apart from that this worked beautifully.
