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Just a really quick blog post on how to silently install the reporting agent inside your environment.

Log into a server / client without the EdgeSight plugin installed, and browse to the edgesight website. Once logged in, you will receive the usual prompt to install the software:

Install the software and ensure it works, then fire up a command prompt and browse down to “c:\windows\downloaded program files”. Once in this folder, a DIR will reveal the ActiveX plugin “csmdbprov.dll”.

Now simply copy this file out to shared storage:

Once done, now its scripting time!

Below are two examples in batch (.bat , .cmd) or PowerShell (.ps1) for achieving this:

(please amend h:\csmdbprov.dll to the path you use)

Batch:

copy h:\csmdbprov.dll "c:\windows\downloaded program files"
regsvr32 /s "c:\windows\downloaded program files"

Powershell:

if (test-path h:\csmdbprov.dll){
	copy-item H:\csmdbprov.dll 'C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files' -Force
	start-process regsvr32 -ArgumentList "/s ""C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files\csmdbprov.dll""" -wait
}