[Q&A] Update with Powershell 1.11 to 1.12

[thiagoportela]

Documentation & bug reporting acknowledgment

Yes, I read it

Describe your problem

I need to update all the agents on the company that i work.

I'm using this command but when i tried didnt work because it asks if i want to repair, reinstal or remove.

msiexec /i GLPIAgent.msi /quiet RUNNOW=1 ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1 SERVER='##################' CA_CERT_DIR='####################' TASKS=inventory,deploy,collect,inventory

[g-bougard]

Hi @thiagoportela

I don't understand why you're talking about PowerShell in the discussion title where you make no reference to it in the description.

If the problem is you run the command in a PowerShell environment, maybe you have to take more care about how quotes or double-quotes are interpreted.

Generally if the installation open the "repair / reinstall / remove" windows, this means the software is simply still installed. If you're in a process of reinstalling to reconfigure your agents, you just need to add this parameter: REINSTALL=feat_AGENT

You may also want to better use our VBS which simplify the process, see https://glpi-agent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/index.html#large-installations

[perplexityjeff]

Hi @thiagoportela,

Maybe this can help https://gist.github.com/perplexityjeff/c3daf9011b632dbf047f5fdcd24c66c3. This is a version of the script that I use for updating / installing. Please ensure that you change the installation arguments to match your setup.

Hopefully this helps,

Jeff

[g-bougard]

Hi @perplexityjeff

of course, your script isn't officially supported. I quickly checked it, I see few "little" problems with it:

• setting $ForceInventory and RUNOW=1 in $InstallArguments should mean glpi-agent will run 2 times an inventory during installation, one time from the installer and one time from that script.
• compared to our official VBS, it misses one check: is the MsiServer available ? See MsiServerAvailable() API

No big deal anyway at the first look.

[perplexityjeff]

Ah thanks for the feedback, I'll look into that.