Installing ControlUp Edge DX on Non-Persistent VDI Images

A user was having difficulty finding documentation on installing ControlUp Edge DX onto a non-persistent VDI base image. The solution is to add the ONLYSTARTONBOOT=1 argument and to register machines by name in the agent settings within the tenant. Casing is important. The full command is: msiexec /i agentmanagersetup.msi /qn DEVREGCODE=(SampleCode) TENANT=(TenantName).sip.controlup.com ONLYSTARTONBOOT=1 REGISTERWITHNAME=1.

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having trouble locating docs on Edge DX install on a non-persistent VDI base image. Thx in advance.

ONLYSTARTONBOOT=1 sets the Agent to not automatically start after the Agent is installed. You must use this option if you are installing the Agent onto a Windows image for cloning (for example, using Citrix PVS/MCS). The Agent starts and connects to your environment on the first boot of the cloned image.

https://support.controlup.com/docs/edge-dx-agent-distribution-and-installation-for-windows

You probably want to register the machines by name as well for VDI.

thx, i was searching for VDI and it didn’t come up

This changes Edge to use the machine name and not UID’s.

hmmm, that would be good info to have in the doc. thx!

Yeah, the problem is if the uid.txt file doesn’t exist it creates a new random uid and you wind up with duplicate machines in Edge. By using machine name they come up the same each time without a new uid.

But in theory you could have 2 users with the same machine name on different networks and cause issues. Kinda why they used uid by default.

msiexec /i agentmanagersetup.msi /qn DEVREGCODE=<SampleCode> TENANT=<TenantName>.[sip.controlup.com](http://sip.controlup.com) ONLYSTARTONBOOT=1 RegisterWithDeviceName=true

is this correct?

do we set that to true during the install or in teh custom agent settings?

I don’t think the RegisterWithDeviceName is a valid argument. Pretty sure that needs to go into the settings of the tenant.

> add REGISTERWITHNAME=1 to the msi command line

casing is important

Well do both. Set the agent setting on the tenant and add the MSI command line

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