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ArtiosCAD 12.1
Using the Silent Installer
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Contents
1. Location and Copyright............................................................................................................................................................ 3
2. Introduction.....................................................................................................................................................................................5
3. Before you begin......................................................................................................................................................................... 6
4. Composing the command....................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.1 Switches................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
5. Notes and examples................................................................................................................................................................10
5.1 Example 1.......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2 Example 2.......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
5.3 Example 3.......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
6. SolidWorks....................................................................................................................................................................................12
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1. Location and Copyright
Esko
Kortrijksesteenweg 1095
BE-9051 Gent
Belgium
Tel.: (32) (9) 216-92-11
Fax: (32) (9) 216-94-64
Other offices worldwide.
Written and revised by Adam Hartfield, June 2013.
For use with ArtiosCAD 12.1 or greater.
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2. Introduction
In large corporate environments, it can be inconvenient to install and configure ArtiosCAD identically on many workstations. To ease this task, ArtiosCAD has an installation method called silent installation which needs minimal user intervention.
Silent installation uses the command prompt and appends the setup command with configuration options called switches. For example, to install ArtiosCAD to the D: drive and have user files stored in E:\users\prod, the command is as follows: setup /s /v"/qn INSTALLDIR=D:\Artios USERFILESDIR=E:\Users\Prod"
For a richer and more robust ArtiosCAD installation experience, you can write a batch file containing the command, and distribute the batch file to each computer for use with the ArtiosCAD media. Or the batch file can be run on each computer with the command inside the batch file pointing to the
ArtiosCAD setup directory on a common network server. Silent installation is not a way to install
ArtiosCAD remotely. It works only for the computer on which it is run. For example, you cannot install
ArtiosCAD on system CLIENT1 by doing a silent installation on system SERVER1 and specifying file locations on CLIENT1. Doing that would install ArtiosCAD on SERVER1 and store all the files on CLIENT1. It would not install ArtiosCAD on CLIENT1. Consult the latest system requirements on
Esko's website to determine which operating systems support using ArtiosCAD.
Note:
For all operations using the silent installer, you must be logged in as Administrator or as a user who is a member of the local Administrators group. Being a member of the Domain Administrators group is not sufficient.
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3. Before you begin
If the system will be using SQL Server 2012 Express Edition as the database engine, you must install it before installing ArtiosCAD.To install SQL Server 2012 Express Edition silently using the batch file, run
\ArtiosCAD\SQL2012ExpressInstall.bat on the media on the Database server.
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4. Composing the command
All silent installations start by using this command: setup /s /v”/qn switches” where switches are configuration options you specify that are described in the next section.
When composing the command, note the following:
• There is no space between the v and the first quotation mark.
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Switches and their values are case sensitive.
• Use a quotation mark after the last switch to close the string of switches passed to the setup program.
• If there are spaces in a switch, use quotation marks to enclose it. To not interfere with the quotation marks around the entire string of switches, each of these quotation marks must be preceded by a backslash, as shown below: setup /s /v"/qn INSTALLDIR=\"D:\Esko\Artios Test\""
• You must use the setup command in the ArtiosCAD folder of the CD or network location, or explicitly state the absolute path to it as part of the setup command (for example,
G:
\ArtiosCAD_versions\ArtiosCAD12.1en\ArtiosCAD\setup). The top level setup.exe
does not work for silent installation.
The value of each piece of information needed to install ArtiosCAD comes from one of three places:
1. It can be specified as a switch on the command line.
2. It can be in the Registry already if this is an upgrade.
3. It can be a default in the setup program.
The setup program follows the hierarchy listed above. Command line switches override Registry values and the setup program’s internal defaults. Values already in the Registry override internal defaults but in turn are overridden by command line switches. Internal defaults are used only when there is no pre-existing Registry value and no command line switch.
4.1 Switches
Switches
INSTALLDIR
USERFILESDIR
Default Value
C:\Esko\Artios
C:\Esko\Artios
\Designs or the path to \\server\share
\Designs if a Defaults client or the User
Allowable Values Can be overridden by Registry value?
Description
Any directory path Yes
Any directory path Yes
Directory where
ArtiosCAD installs
Directory where user files are stored
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Switches Default Value Allowable Values Can be overridden by Registry value?
Description files directory of the latest loaded Esko
ArtiosCAD
DATABASETYPE SQL2012Express
AUTHMETHOD sql
MSDE
SQL2005Express
SQL2012Express
Other sql windows
Yes
Yes
Database engine
CONFSERVER
DBSERVER
LMSERVER
INSTALLLEVEL
ADDLOCAL
Current system name
Current system name
Current system name
100
ArtiosCAD_Programs
Database_Controls
Database_Server
License_Server
Defaults_Server
PDF_Libraries
ThreeD_Connection
Any valid system name
Any valid system name
Any valid system name
50
100
101
Database_Controls
Database_Server
License_Server
Defaults_Server
PDF_Libraries
ThreeD_Connection
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication method for SQL
Server 2012 or 2005
Express Edition.
Case-sensitive.
The ArtiosCAD
Defaults server for an
Advanced Client
The ArtiosCAD database server for an Advanced Client
The ArtiosCAD
License server for an
Advanced Client
50 - Install ArtiosCAD
Servers only
100 - Install
ArtiosCAD, servers,
PDF, and ArtiosCAD
3D Data Exchange
101 - Install
ArtiosCAD, servers,
PDF, ArtiosCAD 3D
Data Exchange, and
Esko Configuration
Manager
Comma-separated list of features to install; provides finer control than
INSTALLLEVEL
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Switches
LMTYPE
Default Value
Local
PREVIOUSVERSIONKeep
SYSTEMTYPE Standalone
SERVERNAME Current system name
UPDATE
True if there are other versions of
ArtiosCAD loaded
False if no other versions of
ArtiosCAD loaded
UPDATEVERSION Latest version of
ArtiosCAD on the system not greater than this one
REBOOT No default
Allowable Values Can be overridden by Registry value?
Description
EGSCS
Local
Server
Keep
Overwrite
Standalone
Yes
No
Sets the FlexNet type.
Once ArtiosCAD 12 or later is installed,
ArtiosCAD 7.6
and later must use
FlexNet licensing.
Whether to keep or overwrite the previous versions of ArtiosCAD
The type of
ArtiosCAD system
Server
Yes
Client
Advanced
Any valid system name
True
False
Any valid
ArtiosCAD version
Force
Suppress
ReallySuppress
Yes
No
No
No
The ArtiosCAD Server for a Standard Client
Whether or not this is an upgrade from a previous version of
ArtiosCAD
The version being upgraded by this installation
Force: Forces a reboot at the end
Suppress:
Suppresses reboots unless forced internally by the installer
ReallySuppress:
Suppresses ALL reboots
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5. Notes and examples
Specify as many switches as desired on the command line up to the limit of the command line length.
Switch
/qn makes the installation silent. To show a user interface with progress bars only, use /qb instead. To show progress bars and a dialog box at the end, use
/qb+.
The system may reboot at the end of the silent installation unless you specifically use the
REBOOT=ReallySuppress switch.
When using the silent installer to reload the current version, you must add
“REINSTALL=ALL
REINSTALLMODE=vomus” to the switches.
5.1 Example 1
To run a silent installation using all the defaults from the media drive, assuming the media drive is
D:, do the following at the command prompt with disk 1 of the ArtiosCAD media in the drive:
D: cd \ArtiosCAD setup /s /v”/qn” and press
Enter.
5.2 Example 2
To run a silent installation for a Standalone system type using Oracle as the database and installing everything but the Esko Configuration Manager, type the following at the command prompt with the
ArtiosCAD media in the
D: drive:
D: cd \ArtiosCAD setup /s /v”/qn DATABASETYPE=Other ADDLOCAL=ArtiosCAD_Programs,
Database_Controls,Database_Server,Defaults_Server,PDF_Libraries,ThreeD_Connection" and press
Enter.
As the database type is set to
Other, you also have to manually add the ODBC entry for ArtiosCAD on the
System DSN tab of the ODBC configuration applet in Control Panel. If you are using a 64-bit operating system, use the 32-bit version of the ODBC configuration applet that ArtiosCAD will create.
5.3 Example 3
To run a silent installation from a batch file, two elements must be added to the setup command.
Precede the setup command with start /wait and add the /w switch after it.
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The command in a batch file to run a silent installation using all defaults is shown below.
start /wait setup.exe /w /s /v”/qn”
To run a setup in a batch file that sets the installation directory to
L:\Artios and the licensing type to FlexNet Local, use the following command inside the batch file. In the batch file it is all on one line.
start /wait setup /w /s /v”/qn INSTALLDIR=L:\Artios LMTYPE=Local”
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6. SolidWorks
To install SolidWorks silently using the batch file, run
SolidWorksInstall.bat on the separate
SolidWorks media as an administrative user. If you have User Account Control (UAC) turned on, you must use an administrator command prompt to run the batch file; right-click the command prompt shortcut on the Start menu and choose
Run as administrator. Otherwise, the batch file will appear to work correctly, but the software will not load correctly and the feature will fail in ArtiosCAD.
The batch file can accept two parameters,
INSTALLDIR and /s. INSTALLDIR is the directory into which SolidWorks is installed; by default, it is
C:\Esko\Artios. The /s switch causes the installer to be mostly silent; even when specified, some user interface elements may appear.
To remove the separate version of SolidWorks introduced in ArtiosCAD 7.6, run
SolidWorksRemove.bat in the root folder of the separate SolidWorks media.
If you have purchased the SolidWorks option in a pre-7.6 version of ArtiosCAD and need to remove it without uninstalling ArtiosCAD, run
\ArtiosCAD\SolidWorksRemove.bat on disk 1 of the
ArtiosCAD media used to install it initially. The integrated version of SolidWorks is normally removed automatically when the last version of ArtiosCAD using it is removed.
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