NetModem's installer allows unattended installs using either the EXE or MSI versions of the Installers.

The following MSIEXEC command line options can be used:

Option - Description

/q or /quiet - Quiet mode, no user interaction. Used for unattended installs.
/qb or /passive - Unattended mode, progress bar only.
/x or /uninstall - Uninstalls the product.
/l or /log - Logging Options. The following log options are supported:

/l[i|w|e|a|r|u|c|m|o|p|v|x|+|!|*] <LogFile>

i - Status messages
w - Nonfatal warnings
e - All error messages
a - Start up of actions
r - Action-specific records
u - User requests
c - Initial UI parameters
m - Out-of-memory or fatal exit information
o - Out-of-disk-space messages
p - Terminal properties
v - Verbose output
x - Extra debugging information
+ - Append to existing log file
! - Flush each line to the log
* - Log all information, except for v and x options

/log <LogFile>

NetModem Client has an additional parameter used to define the COM ports and their
assocated settings and IP addresses.

CONFIG="c:\path\filename.reg" - Adds a configuration file to the registry. The quote marks
must be included.

This option allows COM ports to be pre-configured by the administrator for remote deployment.
This is done by pre-configuring one or more COM ports on an existing NetModem Client PC as
desired, and then run regedit.exe and navigate to the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VCOMM

In the left side of the registry editor, right click on the VCOMM folder and select "Export",
and save the export to a file such as c:\VCOMM.REG

Important Step:
Next you will need to open this file in a text editor such as edit.exe, and delete the last 4 lines
which are as follows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VCOMM\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_VCOMM\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001

The above registry entry must be removed in order for the NetModem Client Virtual COM
driver to install. Once the driver has been installed, the entry will be added in automatically.

This VCOMM.REG file contains the settings for all the Virtual COM ports, including the IP
address and security settings for each COM port.

You can deploy the installer using the configuration from this file using the following command
line:

MSIEXEC /i NetModemClient330.msi CONFIG="c:\VCOMM.REG" /quiet

or to see the progress bar during the install, use the following command line:

MSIEXEC /i NetModemClient330.msi CONFIG="c:\VCOMM.REG" /quiet /passive

 

 

Please contact technical support if you have trouble with the unattended install. We are in the process of releasing a utility to simplify the unattended installation process.