RobotStudio Silent Install

RobotStudio
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Hi,

I need to install RobotStudio on a couple of PCs in our students lab. Is there a possibility to define the target dir and the path to the license server for a silent install? I managed a silent install with basic parameters using the command line

setup.exe /S /v/qn

But this is rather useless if i have to define the license server on each pc afterwards. I looked through the readme of RobotStudio and also through the manual, didn’t find anything…

Regards
Matthias

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Hi Matthias,
Try this:

setup.exe /s /v"/qb ADDLOCAL=ALL LICENSE_SERVER=myhostname"

It might be possible to change target directory by adding INSTALLDIR=… inside the quotes, but that has not been tested.

Regards,
Johannes

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Dear Johannes,

thanks to your post, we were able to deploy RobotStudio 6 on our clients with a defined license server.
After upgrading to Version 7 (2019), the setup parameter “LICENSE_SERVER=myhostname” has stopped working and we have
to manually define the license server on every client.
Do you know if the setup parameter has been changed?

Kind Regards,
Markus

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Hi Markus,

Yes it is not working in 2019.1 due to changes in the licensing system. This will be addressed in 2019.2 which should be released soon.

A workaround is to run this command as a separate step after the installation:

RobotStudio.Installer.exe SetServer myhostname

RobotStudio.Installer.exe is located in the RobotStudio 2019\Bin directory. Note that it requires elevated privileges.

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Dear Johannes,

thanks for the hints for the silent install. Is there a documentation of all possible command line options/operations?

Is it also possible to install RobotWare silently? When switching to RS 2019 we need to make the change on numerous workstations, so this would really help.

Regards
Matthias

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Hi Matthias,
Besides LICENSE_SERVER, there are only standard InstallShield switches:
https://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/installshield19helplib/helplibrary/IHelpSetup_EXECmdLine.htm

I don’t think it’s possible to install RobotWare silently, but I’ll make a note of it.

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Hi Johannes,

thanks for the information. Would be good to have the RobotWare installed automatically, but so we have to do it manually. More work for our student assistants :wink:

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Just wanted to confirm that the silent installation procedure outlined above works with RobotStudio 2020.x