RobotStudio Silent Install

MatthiasN

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

Johannes Weiman

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

SamR

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

Johannes Weiman

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.

MatthiasN

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

Johannes Weiman

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.

MatthiasN

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 ;-)

Maxim Riabichev

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